Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon

Re:Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this ... by skronch on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:08PM (#11624650)

linking the actual comic in question (since it wasn't immediately obvious in the article): http://www.kcci.com/news/39341462

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Re:Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this ... by BHSPitMonkey on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @07:19PM (#11624998)

Maybe he lost his job because it's just not a good comic. It's seriously just a written statement of fact needlessly wrapped in a drawing of two (identical?) people standing by a fence.

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Re:Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this ... by cloakandswagger on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @07:27PM (#11625035)

Agreed. The cartoon isn't funny, subtle or provocative, so I'd fire him on those grounds alone.

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Re:Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this ... by ball_of_lint on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:00PM (#11625218)

I don't laugh at every Mallard Filmore, but he still shows up in my Sunday paper.

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Re:Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this ... by CM30 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:38AM (#11626625)

It's more funny and provocative than most of the comics you see in newspapers, depressing enough. Compared to Mallard Filmore, The Family Circus, etc...

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Re:Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this ... by xlm1717 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:18AM (#11628951)

You would fire a long-time cartoonist because one cartoon wasn't funny, subtle, or provocative?

You have extremely strict standards!

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