Comments on: Amy Lago Responds to Dropped Opus Flap http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Becky http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-66599 Becky Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:08:28 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-66599 "Life is offensive!" At which point all run off screaming in horror. Opus sums up the spectacle thus: "Offensensibility." We can burn a flag but can't put down a burgha. For those with a short memory, women burnt their burghas in Afghanistan to help light the way for U.S. helicopters making the first night medivac flights. I read that in the Washington Post. “Life is offensive!” At which point all run off screaming in horror. Opus sums up the spectacle thus: “Offensensibility.”

We can burn a flag but can’t put down a burgha.

For those with a short memory, women burnt their burghas in Afghanistan to help light the way for U.S. helicopters making the first night medivac flights.

I read that in the Washington Post.

]]> By: richard blaine http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-66597 richard blaine Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:41:06 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-66597 Late to join the fray. Ever wonder what we're spending billions of bucks a month fighting terrorism and extremists around the world? It is so lawyers and add agencies can have the final say about free speech. Don't get offended at me. We are the only country in the world that sends lawyers in with our army. Anyone read "Fahrenheit 451" lately? Synopsis: In an effort not to offend anyone or group, books are banned and only government/lawyer sanitized television is authorized. Violators of this decree witness their homes/businesses being set alight (451 being the temperature that books burn at) before they are carted off to prison. Twenty-plus years ago Breathed had a cartoon where the characters took offense at each other. Very funny then. Should be funny now. Heck, I think I'm going to get a beer, light up a cigarette, listen to Richard Pryor's "Bicentennial Niggar" on the turntable, thumb through an old "Mad Magazine" or "Harvard Lampoon", and try to remember what freedom of speech, thought and press were like when I was in college in the ‘70s. Hard to believe all those hippies are so uptight now. The second best newspaper in the D.C. area is "The Onion", which makes no pretense to be anything other than a satire of life. Late to join the fray. Ever wonder what we’re spending billions of bucks a month fighting terrorism and extremists around the world? It is so lawyers and add agencies can have the final say about free speech. Don’t get offended at me. We are the only country in the world that sends lawyers in with our army.

Anyone read “Fahrenheit 451″ lately? Synopsis: In an effort not to offend anyone or group, books are banned and only government/lawyer sanitized television is authorized. Violators of this decree witness their homes/businesses being set alight (451 being the temperature that books burn at) before they are carted off to prison.

Twenty-plus years ago Breathed had a cartoon where the characters took offense at each other. Very funny then. Should be funny now.

Heck, I think I’m going to get a beer, light up a cigarette, listen to Richard Pryor’s “Bicentennial Niggar” on the turntable, thumb through an old “Mad Magazine” or “Harvard Lampoon”, and try to remember what freedom of speech, thought and press were like when I was in college in the ‘70s. Hard to believe all those hippies are so uptight now.

The second best newspaper in the D.C. area is “The Onion”, which makes no pretense to be anything other than a satire of life.

]]> By: Garey Mckee http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62723 Garey Mckee Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:32:08 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62723 Comics killed by the plasma sword. Who woulda thunk it. Comics killed by the plasma sword. Who woulda thunk it.

]]> By: Mike Lester http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62721 Mike Lester Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:21:37 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62721 Amy's right. Until satire and irony replace bad puns and sitcom humor, none of the demographic I've seen standing in line to buy Halo 3 have any reason to pick up a newspaper comic section. Amy’s right. Until satire and irony replace bad puns and sitcom humor, none of the demographic I’ve seen standing in line to buy Halo 3 have any reason to pick up a newspaper comic section.

]]> By: Eric Burke http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62717 Eric Burke Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:19:26 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62717 <i>I’m further worried about newspapers — if you’re not watching Comedy Central, especially programs like The Daily Show, then you’re probably not going to understand satire. And without satire as a comedic device, comics become lackluster and unappealing to the young and smart readers that newspapers are always claiming they want to attract.</i> Seems like all the more reason to actually <i>publish</i> satirical cartoons. A disappointing response from what I think is the best eye of fresh talent currently working for a syndicate... I’m further worried about newspapers — if you’re not watching Comedy Central, especially programs like The Daily Show, then you’re probably not going to understand satire. And without satire as a comedic device, comics become lackluster and unappealing to the young and smart readers that newspapers are always claiming they want to attract.

Seems like all the more reason to actually publish satirical cartoons. A disappointing response from what I think is the best eye of fresh talent currently working for a syndicate…

]]> By: Garey Mckee http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62714 Garey Mckee Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:55:43 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62714 I'm glad Amy Lago made the point clear on Tom's free speech question. No body stopped Breathed from drawing the comics in question. A cartoonist has the right to draw or say anything he or she wants. But that doesn't mean they have the right to have it published. I’m glad Amy Lago made the point clear on Tom’s free speech question. No body stopped Breathed from drawing the comics in question. A cartoonist has the right to draw or say anything he or she wants. But that doesn’t mean they have the right to have it published.

]]> By: Mike Witmer http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62710 Mike Witmer Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:51:39 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62710 It's sort've a catch 22. I'm sure the editors out there WANT to take a chance on edgy humor. But on the flipside of that, who wants to lose their job in an age where every reader out there is DYING to be offended. www.pinkertonpark.com It’s sort’ve a catch 22. I’m sure the editors out there WANT to take a chance on edgy humor. But on the flipside of that, who wants to lose their job in an age where every reader out there is DYING to be offended.

http://www.pinkertonpark.com

]]> By: Scott Metzger http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62709 Scott Metzger Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:35:24 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62709 "I'm further worried about newspapers...without satire as a comedic device, comics become lackluster and unappealing to the young and smart readers that newspapers are always claiming they want to attract." Right on the money. Newspaper comics editors need to start taking some risks if they want to attract a younger readership. Of course that's easier said than done, since newspaper readers tend to complain about things that 'offend' them rather than take the time to praise things they really like. “I’m further worried about newspapers…without satire as a comedic device, comics become lackluster and unappealing to the young and smart readers that newspapers are always claiming they want to attract.”

Right on the money. Newspaper comics editors need to start taking some risks if they want to attract a younger readership.

Of course that’s easier said than done, since newspaper readers tend to complain about things that ‘offend’ them rather than take the time to praise things they really like.

]]> By: Brian Lager http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62697 Brian Lager Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:18:26 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/24/amy-lago-responds-to-dropped-opus-flap/#comment-62697 Huh? The only way to understand satire is by watching Comedy Central? Peter Cook must be rolling in Dudley Moore's grave. Huh?

The only way to understand satire is by watching Comedy Central?

Peter Cook must be rolling in Dudley Moore’s grave.

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