Coffin Cartoonist Slams Footballer

This is a story that may only interest me, but I was happy to see Giorgio Forattini slam the Italian World Cup team member that criticized his cartoon showing the defending champs -- who failed to qualify in the top 16 after preliminary matches -- as a set of coffins. Apparently Simon Pepe was so upset by this depiction that he accosted members of the press traveling with him to see if any worked on the same newspaper, and wished a similar coffin-related fate on the cartoonist. Forattini reiterated his suggestion that the Italian team played like cadavers and tossed in a pretty good "millionaire athlete"-style slam for good measure.

Other than just finding the cartoon mean and funny, and beyond being grateful for a cartoon-related World Cup story that didn't involve how assiduously African cartoonists were expected to flatter the Ghanian squad as a continental representative, there's probably something to be said of how this relates to editorial cartooning generally in a world where celebrity increasingly defines the parameters of news and the degree of importance we place on individual stories. Playing a sport in crappy fashion for a couple of weeks is probably not enough to garner an equivalency with death; then again, that's the news we cover and nobody's crying for the celebrity that suffers a bad opinion or fifty.
 
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