Editorial cartoonist Jim Lange spent 58 years at The Oklahoman. He passed away in 2009. His son, Robert, has written a book about his father called “John Q: The Life and Times of Jim Lange“. From the Oklahoman: ?My dad passed away about four years ago,? the author said. ?I’d thought to myself over the […]
GEWTV interviews Tulsa World editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante on what goes into making an editorial cartoon:
As promised by the Urban Tulsa publisher, Keith Skrzypczak, today’s edition contains the formal response from the paper regarding the accusations of plagiarism by its cartoonist David Simpson. Noted is the news that Simpson has stated that he is retiring from editorial cartooning. Dave Simpson, an award-winning, nationally syndicated former editorial cartoonist with the erstwhile […]
Susie MacNelly, Jeff’s widow, has written the following which I’m sharing with her permission: Mike Peters so accurately described David Simpson as a cartoon kleptomaniac. Tulsa must be in a black hole with different journalistic ethics because neither Simpson nor his editor/publisher seem repentant. His editor wanted me to write the retraction….I declined. Mr. Simpson’s […]
Jeff MacNelly’s widow, Susie MacNelly, received an apology letter from the now former Urban Tulsa editorial cartoonist David Simpson admitting he “stole” Jeff’s Jimmy Carter cartoon that was brought to light last week. With her permission, I’m sharing that letter. Here is the original letter: Dear Susan: I’m very sorry that I stole Jeff’s Carter […]
According to Poynter David Simpson has resigned from his contract position at the Urban Tulsa. According to the paper’s creative director, the second plagiarized cartoon went to press before the issue of originality came to light. In a separate post on Poynter, the paper’s publisher plans to respond to the accusations of plagiarism in the […]
In light of the recent cases of David Simpson’s plagiarism in the Urban Tulsa, the Toy & Action Figure Museum has retracted Simpson’s 2005 induction into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame. Here is the statement in full by Musuem Director Lisa Driskill: Due to the recent revelation of another apparent incidence of plagiarism on […]
This morning I asked jokingly if today’s new David Simpson cartoon was an original. Turns out it’s not. A Daily Cartoonist reader who wished to remain anonymous found the source of the cartoon in the Jeff MacNelly official archives (last cartoon on the page). He tells me it took him about five minutes to find […]
I watched and waited all last week for any updates regarding the accusations that Urban Tulsa cartoonist David Simpson had blatantly plagiarized a Jeff MacNelly editorial cartoon. No emails were returned, no notices posted on their website or twitter account that they even acknowledged being aware of any “WTF?” from anyone from Poynter on down […]
A David Simpson editorial cartoon in the latest issue of The Urban Tulsa might look eerily familiar to fans of the late Jeff MacNelly. The original MacNelly cartoon depicts is a scene of a military junk yard with President Jimmy Carter trying to jump start an aged jet with a beat-up pickup truck. The Simpson […]
South Florida Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe and former Tulsa World cartoonist Doug Marlette will be inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame later this month. Chan was the cartoonist for the Oklahoma City Times from 1978-1984 and Doug was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who had a brief tenure at the Tulsa […]