How the West failed the test of the Danish cartoons controversy On 30 September 2005, 12 cartoons appeared in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, under the headline, ‘The face of Muhammad’. They were commissioned in response to reports that Danish children’s author Kare Bluitgen had been unable to find an illustrator for a book about Muhammad. […]
Didn’t notice it on yesterday’s Marmaduke, but it was a bit more obvious today. The kids in today’s Marmaduke looked familiar but not Marmaduke familiar. And checking them out there was a noticeable difference in the signature. A “Hinds” was added Sunday and Monday and those kids look suspiciously Cleats-y. But still… it wasn’t the […]
We’ll start with a cartoon from Australia that suggests two responses from up here: One is “Glad we could amuse you,” since we have to live with the chaos she depicts. But that draws a second response of “Thank god you’re watching,” because we’d sure hate to have all this unfolding without witnesses. And if […]