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A jigsaw artist has branded a games firm woke after it ordered him to remove the St George’s flag from a puzzle.
Mike Jupp, 77, has alleged that he was asked to remove it as part of a diversity and inclusion drive by Gibsons Games.
The puzzle, which was a 1,000-piece set showing a chaotic village life scene, was called ‘I love Spring’.
Jigsaw puzzle creator and cartoonist Mike Jupp has told his employer for the past 25 years “to shove it” when they made, in his view, unreasonable demands that he change his jigsaw creations to make them less offensive after they had already passed editorial muster and been produced.
Lettice Bromovsky reports for the Daily Mail.
Mike claimed the 100-year-old family business asked for a busty woman in a bath tub, a bull drooling over a cow in lingerie and a group of Morris dancers, who they assumed were Northern Ireland’s Orange Order to be removed.
The award-winning cartoonist also claimed that the suggested changes to make his puzzles ‘less offensive’ needed to ‘apply to my complete back catalogue’.
He agreed to the request but has since has now stopped working with Gibsons after claiming he felt ‘disrespected’ by the changes.
He told the Sun: ‘Telling a cartoonist how to depict humour is as disrespectful as it is infuriating.
‘They made a series of ridiculous demands that not even I could live with, so I told them to shove it and withdrew my licences.’
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