* Alan Gardner over at the Daily Cartoonist notes that the Adirondack Daily Enterprise has dropped their use of freelancer Mark "Marquil" Wilson, after using his cartoon making fun of an armed standoff as handled by New York's state police. Complaints were received. I find dropping a cartoonist and then kicking him in the ass as he heads out the door simply because he created an opinion piece which you didn't believe in but ran away to be pitiful, frankly. I think the cartoonist should find more work: I can't speak to how the above cartoon acts as political commentary, but I like the gag.
* When I said yesterday that Jerry Falwell wasn't a beloved figure among evangelicals to the point I thought many would leap to his defense over cartoons criticizing the excesses of his political statement and activities, I didn't mean to suggest that a cartoonist drawing the late religious leader in hell wouldn't rile up the masses. Daryl Cagle has one such story in his May 18 entry.
