By: E&P Staff Michael Cavna, cartoonist and editor in The Washington Post's Style section and the man behind the Post's "Comic Riffs" blog, today calls for New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas to "do the right thing."
Cavna writes, ?As an artist who myself, when under fire, has reflexively assumed the Official Editorial Cartoonist's Defensive Crouch, I feel compelled to reach out to the New York Post's controversial political cartoonist to tell -- nay, implore -- him with seven simple words before it's too late. Words that Sean "It's Friggin' Ridiculous" Delonas might embrace:
"Dude, it's time to apologize. No -- seriously."
He adds, ?The self-respecting professional cartoonist -- and I sincerely hope that's what you purport, or strive, to be -- knows that the cardinal rule has nothing to do with offending readers (many political cartoonists, in fact, are wired so as to take a certain glee in that).
?In other words: You owe readers a sincere apology for your lack of clarity regarding your infamous chimp cartoon, because clarity of message is Job One. And when you haven't accomplished that -- yet your newspaper offers only an extremely qualified partial apology -- Job Two becomes: Be a bigger person than those who drafted your newspaper's apology.?
Check out Cavna?s full post
here.
Cavna?s syndicated cartoons have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Diego Union-Tribune and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.
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