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SacBee’s Jack Ohman won’t apologize for Texas explosion cartoon

Joshua Gillin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:02:40 +0000

Sacramento Bee | Fox News

Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman has refused to apologize for an editorial cartoon berating loose business regulations in Texas that potentially led to the April 17 explosion of a fertilizer plant in the town … Read more

Bill Day recycling stirs talk of plagiarism in editorial cartoons

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:54:17 +0000

The Daily Cartoonist | That Cartoon Critic | Matt Bors
Bill Day used another illustrator’s work without attribution in a recent cartoon, Alan Gardner writes. Videogame developer Zack Fowler’s image of a rifle landed in a Day cartoon about the … Read more

Toronto Star apologizes for cartoon that ‘fed into racial stereotypes’

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:56:33 +0000

The Toronto Star | Michael de Adder | Sabrina Scott
The Toronto Star apologized for a Michael de Adder cartoon, saying many readers thought it “fed into racial stereotypes at a time when emotions were running particularly high.” (Don’t … Read more

Rex Babin, Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist, dies of cancer

Steve Myers — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:37:15 +0000

The Daily Cartoonist | The Sacramento Bee
Rex Babin, a 2003 Pulitzer finalist for editorial cartooning, died Friday morning at the age of 49 “after a long struggle with stomach cancer,” reports the Bee’s Anita Creamer. She recalls his work:… Read more

Cleveland Plain Dealer readers confused by decision to pull Non Sequitur comic

Julie Moos — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:33:27 +0000

The Plain Dealer decided not to publish a Non Sequitur comic Friday that depicts a bunny looking at a police lineup of other animals and saying, “They all really do look alike to me.” In its place was an editor’s … Read more

Pulitzer winning cartoonist David Horsey goes from PI to LA Times

Julie Moos — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:32:17 +0000

I’ve been thinking I wanted to try something bigger. It’s an amicable parting with Hearst, and I wish everyone the best. Pi.com is trying to do something new with a small but talented staff, and is still trying to sort … Read more

Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist resigns after plagiarism accusations

Steve Myers — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:44:38 +0000

Jeff Stahler resigned from the Columbus Dispatch Friday, Editor Ben Marrison tells me via email. “That is all we will have to say on this unfortunate matter,” he wrote.

The Dispatch suspended Jeff Stahler while it investigated why three of … Read more

Columbus Dispatch suspends cartoonist Jeff Stahler after learning of similarities to New Yorker cartoons

Steve Myers — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:42:16 +0000

The Daily Cartoonist
Alan Gardner says Stahler’s cartoon in the Dispatch on Monday “has a striking similarity” to a David Sipress cartoon published in the New Yorker in 2009. Stahler tells Gardner that it’s a coincidence, but Gardner points out two … Read more

Mike Keefe’s buyout another sign of the future of editorial cartooning

Steve Myers — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:22:14 +0000

The Washington Post
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe, who just took a buyout at The Denver Post, tells Michael Cavna, “It looks like nothing but a down escalator for the classic full-time newspaper cartoonist. … The digital realm … Read more

MacNelly widow on cartoon plagiarism: ‘Tulsa must be in a black hole with different journalistic ethics’

Steve Myers — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:35:33 +0000

The Daily Cartoonist | Urban Tulsa Weekly | The Washington Post
Jeff MacNelly’s widow Susie tells Alan Gardner at The Daily Cartoonist that David Simpson’s editor asked her to write the retraction for Simpson’s plagiarism of an old cartoon drawn … Read more