Comments on: Did New Yorker cartoon copy Jeff Darcy?

By: Rod Rossi

Rod Rossi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:54:02 +0000

I think hairs are being over split. Tens of thousands of cartoonists all trying to be topical…duplicity is likely to happen.

(“politics of fear” ??? Like global warming, for example? Er, I mean, happy eartlhy day!)

By: Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:34:42 +0000

That NY’er cover has unleashed one of the biggest implosions ever – over on Daily KOS the comment thread is now over two thousand. Worth checking out the sheer range of interpretations and angry reactions it has stirred up, a real lesson in just how powerful a single image can be: using parody to mock a position is unfortunately an art lost on most political extremists, unless you are making fun of the “other side”. In a detached, meta way it truly is one of the most provocative caricatures they’ve done, whether or not someone thinks it is “racist” and cancels their subscription or thinks it’s a hysterical commentary…

By: Wiley Miller

Wiley Miller — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:14:31 +0000

Joe-
Congratulations!
You have just earned a free stay at the Clinic for the Satirically Challenged.

By: Rick Stromoski

Rick Stromoski — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:27:01 +0000

The NYer cover is supposed to be a parody of all of the combined smears against Obama the Repuglican Right has been spewing in yet again another attempt at the politics of fear. It’s because they can’t run on their record.

By: KRANKY (JOE RANK)

KRANKY (JOE RANK) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:15:33 +0000

As suspected, the New Yorker is just another bought off Right Wing crap mill.
Pretending to be outre liberal; all the while catering to their corporate slavemasters. I knew it from the consummate rectalness of Bob Mankoff. WHAT a stuck up JERK!

By: J.G. Moore

J.G. Moore — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:29:58 +0000

Man, did you see the TNY’s Obama cover?!? What is the New Yorker smoking these days.

By: Rod McKie

Rod McKie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:38:51 +0000

That’s a very predictable post Harold.

By: Harold Clayton

Harold Clayton — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:35:32 +0000

The Steve Breen cartoon predated both cartoons in question and was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning portfolio of work. It seems to me, that would make Jeff Darcy just as likely a plagiarist as Paul Noth.

That said, I don’t think either Darcy or Noth is guilty of anything more than drawing a fairly predictable cartoon.

Harold Clayton, III

By: Jeff Darcy

Jeff Darcy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:06:09 +0000

I didn’t read your post that way Lucas. Breen’s toon kind of makes my point that usually when we come up with the same idea the composition and drawing are different. I made light of it with the WSJ. But of course the only quote that got used was “..getting to close for comfort”

By: Malc McGookin

Malc McGookin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:07:21 +0000

Didn’t see the two cartoons concerned, but I Googled “Nascar Merck” and immediately discovered an illustration that has Hillary and Dubyah wearing suits covered in Nascar-style sponsorship.

It’s an obvious idea, and is bound to be thought up by a number of cartoonists.