Creators Of Pooch Cafe And Dogs Of C-Kennel Come To Understanding

This week's remarkable accusation in the form of a slam post by Pooch Cafe's Paul Gilligan on similarities between several of his strips and early offerings by the creators of Dogs Of C-Kennel netted a personal response from the newer strip's creators, described in this follow-up, conciliatory post from Gilligan. It includes this line, "There are no hard feelings, being a daily cartoonist is a tough haul, and I respect anyone who's doing it."

While I pooh-pooh the idea that comic strip cartoonists regularly recycle jokes from peers and look on the kind of red-faced accusation that usually gets made about one random joke being similar to another with some derision, I thought this instance was interesting because the general subject matter of each individual strip clearly overlaps and Gilligan was able to cite multiple examples of what he thought were shared ideas. I do find it odd that you wouldn't read the other dog strips out there when doing a dog strip, but I know people that avoid similar work when working on something of their own, so that's not totally out of my experience. Anyway, it looks Gilligan's at peace, and his coming out and speaking and plain language is what really set this one apart.
 
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