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Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Respond to The New Yorker's Obama Cover

By AAN Staff

july 16, 2008 04:39 pm

Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Respond to The New Yorker's Obama Cover

CJR asked several cartoonists to offer their two cents on the controversial cover, including Ruben Bolling ("Tom the Dancing Bug"), Derf ("The City"), Matt Bors ("The Idiot Box") and Keith Knight ("The K Chronicles"). The responses vary, with Derf staking out the most uncompromising position: "I thought it was hilarious," says Cleveland's edgiest and tallest cartoonist. "So many people are misinformed, and you can't draw to the morons of America. If you don't know that Obama isn't a Muslim, we can't help you."

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