Ted Rall

Earlier, we reported about syndicated cartoonist Keith Knight's cartoon above receiving criticism from readers of The Montclarion, the college newspaper for Montclair State University in New Jersey.

Well, Knight has written in and issued a statement about the cartoon, which I have decided to reprint in it's entirety.

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A cartoon that appeared in the October 23rd issue of The Montclarion that has caused some controversy on campus: (click to enlarge)The Montclarion, the college newspaper for Montclair State University in New Jersey, has issued an apology for a cartoon they ran in their October 23rd issue featuring a woman telling a canvasser that she's going to "vote for the Nigg**."

The cartoon, drawn by syndicated cartoonist Keith Knight, is based on an actually incident featured on the popular electoral projection website FiveThirtyEight.com.

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Controversial cartoonist Ted Rall has done it again with an incendiary cartoon that strikes to the core of the presidential campaign by attempting to link the apparent hostility seen in McCain-Palin campaign rallies with the classic 1931 Life magazine photo of an Indiana lynching that shocked the nation.

"I believe it is fair to call McCain, Palin and their campaign for their dangerous tolerance of intolerance among some of their supporters," Rall said in a post on his blog.

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Syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall, the current president of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, appeared on "It's Not Just Another Cable News Show" on CNN Headline News.  The following clip explores the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker scandal.

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Tom Spurgeon, the writer behind the popular The Comics Reporter blog, has taken syndicated cartoonist and new American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) president Ted Rall to task for what he perceives to be some generality in Ted's argument against newspapers laying off their editorial cartoonists.

"No one needs to hear the same broad assertions again. We need to hear about specific examples of newspapers benefiting by adding cartoonists or featuring them differently," Spurgeon says about editorial cartooning as part of his 24-part plan of what he would do if he were the "emperor of comics."

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Click on the image to read Mike Cavna's Washington Post interview with syndicated cartoonist and current American Association of Editorial Cartoonists president Ted Rall.

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"Love ray, activate," announces Barack Obama, as the phallic flying weapon he is riding on armed with "American values" blasts members of the Taliban walking on the Afghan-Pakistan border, causing them to dance like it's 1499. Read More >

Pat Oliphant's 2004 cartoon that columnist Ashley Herzog labeled as racist: (click to enlarge)What’s the quickest way to upset a cartoonist?  Misinterpret their work and call them racist.  

In a letter to the editor published in The Post (Athens, Ohio), Syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall defended his and other cartoonists’ works about Secretary Condoleezza Rice, which were blasted in a column by Ashley Herzog.

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In an attempt to experiment with a new format for story-telling, the editor at the Concord Monitor, Felice Belman, had no idea that a full-page cartoon would enrage so many readers.

A piece in the Sept. 5 edition of the newspaper titled, How We Got Gay Married by Monitor staffer Clay McCuistion has struck a nerve and lead to numerous angry phone messages on Belman's voice mail. The cartoon, using McCuistion’s “gentle and sometimes goofy humor” helped paint the picture of his recent nuptials with his long-time partner of seven years.

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Stantis Speaks is the title of editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis's blog. On Monday, the Birmingham News staffer will put that title to the test.

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