Credit Where Credit Is Due
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Today’s CSotD by Mike Peterson brought to mind something I’ve noticed lately.
Something that struck again today with Eric Allie‘s regular Friday cartoon at Smerconish and happened last month with an A. F. Branco cartoon.
Both are riffing off of K. C. Green‘s This is Fine dog cartoon.
Neither gives credit to the cartoonist who originated the now trope.
Which reminded me of a Gary Varvel cartoon where I noticed no credit was given to the origin of the setting.
But a few years earlier Dave Whamond noted where the phrase came from as “after Monty Python.”
This seems to be a liberal/conservative habit of giving or not giving credit. See Steve Sack:
Though there are “the exceptions that prove the rule” (ancient Roman legal maxim):
I went through months of Branco cartoons “so you didn’t have to” (origin unknown) and found this:
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