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Englehart Cartoon Plagiarized

From Bob Englehart's Facebook page.

Many of you have seen this cartoon circulating around the Internet. Somebody took my cartoon "Going...Going...Gone!," stripped off my caption and my name and altered it. This is in complete violation of copyright law and respect for an artist's work. In the spirit of new beginnings, I won't call whoever did this any names or what they might do with themselves. Use your imagination. This appeared on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. If they are lawyers, they're not very good ones. They certainly don't know, or care, about copyright law.

Bob Englehart

Editorial Cartoonist

The Hartford Courant

The "Going...Going...Gone!" cartoon:

Maine Governor Jokes About Shooting Newspaper Cartoonist

From The Huffington Post.

George Danby, The Bangor Daily News

WASHINGTON -- Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that he'd like to shoot the cartoonist for the Bangor Daily News, a joke that fell flat in light of the January shooting that killed five Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in France.

A Note on Recently Auctioned Calvin & Hobbes Artwork

From The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum blog.

Thanks to some dear friends and fans of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, it has come to our attention that there were recently three “original” Calvin & Hobbes comic strips listed for sale on eBay.

The Return of Cartoonist Jules Feiffer

From The Wall Street Journal.

Jules Feiffer, 86, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1986 and is author of more than 35 books, plays and screenplays, including “Backing Into Forward: A Memoir.” His first graphic novel is “Kill My Mother” (Liveright, 2014). He spoke with Marc Myers.

"Is Harper the worst prime minister in history?" (part 2)

Bruce Livesey in the National Observer.

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

“Brian Mulroney was an appalling prime minister, appalling. But if I had to pick one prime minister over the other [between Harper and Mulroney], I would pick Mulroney.”

– Stevie Cameron, author of On the Take, the 1994 bestseller about corruption during the Mulroney years.

Part 2 of 2 articles.

"Is Harper the worst prime minister in history?" (part 1)

Bruce Livesey in the National Observer.

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

“I think (Harper)…can be vindictive, certainly not always grateful for what people have done for him in the past… So you can say he’s ruthless, which is probably true… Maybe that’s a personal failing.”
– Tom Flanagan, former Harper adviser, campaign manager and University of Calgary political scientist

Part 1 of 2 articles.