News Clips Part 5 - It's a Wonderful Slice

This cartoon about did me in for the Simpsons. I found if offensive, disturbing, and completely outside of the spirit of the film. In fact, I found it mean-spirited and in extremely bad taste. 

I took my concerns to my editor at the time, and based on this cartoon and my concerns, he pulled the Simpsons from the Sentinel. This was the last Simpsons strip to appear in the Sentinel-Tribune.

I post it here not because I think its cool or funny or fun.  It is here because I am a compete-ist. I believe in total inclusion.

What do you think? Is this funny or offensive?

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News Clips Part 4 - The Simpsons

I love the Simpsons cartoon because of its attention to pop culture. There is almost always a reference to a pop culture icon. For a while, there was even a Simpsons cartoon strip. I cut this one out of one of those strips that appeared in the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune on an unknown date.

This panel makes several references to It's a Wonderful Life, as well as several references to Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra's other films and works. Can you find them all? Comment below! I have included a close-up of the specific panel below, as well as the entire page that the strip appeared on.

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News Clips Part 3 - Movie lover's Christmas list

Here is another story I wrote while I was on staff at the Sentinel-Tribune regarding Its a Wonderful Life. Click on the picture to read it.

News Clips Part 2 - After all these years, it's still a wonderful life

Here is another story I wrote about It's a Wonderful Life that was published in the Sentinel-Tribune newspaper when I was on staff there. Click on the images to read the story.

Here is the full-page layout

News Clips Part 1 - Why I Love It's a Wonderful Life

From 1997 to 2009, I worked at the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune.

In its heyday, it was a GREAT paper. The staff had been there for a long, long time, we all got along. When I was laid off in 2009 during the economic rug-out-from-under-all-of-us suck years that was a death knell for newspapers as they had been since the invention of the printing press, I had the lowest seniority in the office....with 12 years of service. Technically, that was not true, since there were sports writers who were newer than me, but of course, sports are on their own special little platform, taking up 1/4 of the entire paper at that time, and were "held harmless." Whatever.

Recently, the publisher allowed the Second Amendment to trounce all over the First Amendment, and there has been a lot of deserved negative fallout from that, as it became a national story.

Anyway....back when the Sentinel was great, I wrote this story. Click on the image to make it larger so you can read it.