E&P reports that a feminist blogger took issue with Wednesday’s Crankshaft because of a infered joke regarding rape. In the strip by Tom Batuik and Chuck Ayers depicts the Lois character standing over the contents that spilled out of her purse including a can of pepper spray and Crankshaft comments, “You’re sixty-eight, Lois. You can […]
Editor and Publisher has posted their 4th podcast with with this episode including E&P senior editor Dave Astor who talks about the controversial biography of Charles M. Schulz entitled Schulz and Peanuts. Dave draws on his many conversations that he’s had with Sparky as well as his son Monte.
Tuesday’s Morning Edition on NPR had a segment devoted the newly release biography of Charles M. Schulz entitled, “Schulz and Peanuts” by David Michaelis. You can listen to the broadcast from NPR’s web site. I haven’t listened to the broadcast, but the write up to introduce the segment focused mainly on Sparky’s affair during his […]
Monte Schulz, Charles M. Schulz’s oldest son, has posted a comment over on Cartoon Brew regarding the Schulz and Peanuts biography calling the author, David Michaelis “arrogant” and outlines several small and large factual errors in the book. So, why didn’t I correct him when I read that first version? Because to change the central […]
Charlie Hall drew and editorial cartoon for the Barrington Times (RI) and created a wave of upset readers. The cartoon is described as: In the first panel of the cartoon, a high-school student is being harassed by others for urging her peers not to drink. A girl tells the student, “Yea, if WE want to […]
Amy Schulz Johnson, Charles Schulz’ daughter appeared on The Early Show this morning to defend her father’s good name and criticize Michael Michaelis book “Schulz and Peanuts.” The “whole thing (book)” is wrong, Schulz Johnson asserted, “and the reason it’s wrong is because he puts negative twists on everything, and he psychoanalyzes my dad and […]
A Scott Stantis cartoon that was not approved for print was accidently posted on the web last Tuesday angering members of the area black community who argue that the Birmingham News is trying to discredit black leaders. Woods was most disturbed by the editorial cartoons by Scott Stantis that were a commentary on the use […]
With the last week of the Funky Winkerbean story-line of the dying Lisa Moore character, newspapers and readers are talking about the impact and appropriateness of the topic. It’s a subject that is still being debated on several threads on this blog. As a recap, here are what some of the paper’s are writing on […]
Chicago Tribune Public Editor Timothy McNulty has written a response to many a questioning readers as to why a September 14th Get Fuzzy strip was yanked and what criteria does the paper use to determine whether a comic feature should be removed. Readers asked why the Sept. 14th Get Fuzzy, which used the words like […]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]
Despite having a $100,000 bounty on his head (an additional $50k if he’s beheaded), Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who is now in hiding after publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, is in reported good spirits. Mr Vilks, who lives in an isolated area of Sweden, has been […]
Investors Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has managed to offend a few Iranians after a cartoon he drew depicting Iran as a sewer spewing cockroaches across the Middle East. The apparent message was to “point out the danger of extremism and its roots in the Middle East, related to Iran’s government,” but many don’t […]
Darrin Bell’s Candorville is in trial mode at the Raleigh News & Observer – a conservative southern paper, and as he writes on his blog, timing couldn’t have been worse. Naturally, the week with which we introduce their solidly-conservative readers to Candorville happens to be a week that discusses civil rights by lampooning a closeted […]
The Recorder, the school paper of Central Connecticut State University, has managed to offend (disgust?) students and facility by running a comic strip called “Polydongs” which depicts “explicit images surrounding the humiliation and degradation of a 14-year-old Latina girl.” The paper printed a disclaimer under the comic stating that they do not, “support the kidnapping […]
Last week I reported that Grant Woolard, a student cartoonist at the University of Virginia, had erupted another firestorm by drawing a cartoon depicting “nine nearly naked black men fighting each other with sticks, stools, boots and a pillow” and ran with a caption, “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The paper has printed a near 1000 word […]