Similar Concepts

Tjeerd Royaards in Substack.

Let me start this editorial by stating that I am not accusing any artist referenced here below of plagiarism. 

Editorial cartooning isn’t exactly a get-rich-quick scheme, so in my opinion there aren’t many cartoonists who plagiarize (why would you?). 

There are, however, a lot of instances where cartoonists come up with similar concepts.

Canada's heat wave

From Vetustideces.

Canada's heat wave has sparked a humorous wave of softened architecture. 

The warped CN Tower in Toronto stands out in the urban panorama of David Parkins in The Globe and Mail, Bado turned those of the tower of the Federal Parliament of Canada located in Ottawa into soft Dalinian clocks. 

Clay Jones gets another 30-day Facebook suspension

From Clay Toons.

My cartoon of Dilbert joining the hater lunch bunch at Mar-a-Lago wasn’t my first idea on the subject. 

This was my first idea. But like with a lot of first ideas for a cartoon, I figured it was too obvious and that others would do it. 

Nevertheless, I decided to share it with my readers on social media. It was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Truth Social, TikTok, and Tribel.

The damn thing got more likes, comments, and shares than the better cartoon, but that’s social media for ya. Several hours later, it got me another 30-day suspension.

Great minds...

 

At the US Supreme Court, at the end of a working day, after an historic verdict on abortion.
Serge Chapleau, La Presse, Montreal, Tuesday June 28, 2022.

Great minds

 

Aislin's Thursday Montreal Gazette cartoon on the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is uncannily similar to the one by Coco published in Libération. Or is it the other way around ?

Great minds

 

Danish cartoonist Niels Bo Bojesen posted the above cartoon on Twitter yesterday morning.

It so happens that I had a somewhat similar idea a few weeks ago:

Gaming the Pulitzers

 From J.P. Trostle's Facebook page.

Over the years I often made friendly bets with other cartoonists on who would win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. We never wagered money but instead played for bragging rights and the sheer chutzpah of handicapping our friend's work in the race for journalism's "big award."

Not anymore. There's no point.

Out with the old...

 

David Parkins, The Globe & Mail

... in with the new:

Morten Morland, The Sunday Times

Harry and Meghan in Canada

After the Tim Hortons chain offered, on Twitter, free coffee for life to Prince Harry and Meghan if they moved to Canada, Michael deAdder came up with the above cartoon, inspired by the "roll the rim" contest.

Cartoonists Bruce Mackinnon and Vance Rodewalt, for their part, were inspired by a famous SCTV sketch:

Canadian Energy Centre's logo comes under fire a second time

From The Calgary Sun.

For the second time this month, the Canadian Energy Centre war room’s choice of a corporate logo has run into possible flak.

A California-based software company said Friday it’s considering legal action over the CEC’s use of a logo it deems similar to its own.

Something fishy

Michael de Adder posted this cartoon yesterday which I thought looked familiar. Irish Times cartoonist Martyn Turner provided the answer this morning: