i ask because i sent to the patriot ledger on 3 or 4 occasions in 2004 and 2005, blatant examples of o’mahoney cartoons that were near duplicates of recently published national cartoons by jim borgman at the cincinnati enquirer and matt davies at the journal news. i never got a return email or heard of any action coming out of it.

let me say i don’t throw around a word like plagiarism lightly. i know multiple cartoonists come up with the same idea independently all the time and i have seen many a “yahtzee” on daryl cagle’s cartoon site. these cartoons were blatant copies with lots of little flourishes of the original artist thrown in. they were as close to duplicates as the david simpson/bob englehart cartoons that JBoy refers to.

as time went by i was amazed to see that nothing happened but i finally quit keeping tabs on the patriot ledger site. reading this article made me wonder if this copying had ever been exposed.

Simpson was shameless; I’m wondering if this case is similarly so.

I wonder if this will be all over the cartooning circles, like when David Simpson plagiarized Bob Englehart couple years back

(Simpson, BTW, is still drawing. He was hired some time back by Urban Tulsa Weekly, which is an alt-weekly)