Friday, January 22, 2010

Wall Street Journal Plagarism? Probably not, so I apologize, sort of

Yesterday, during one of my usual "ripping the Wall Street Journal's cartoon a new one" rant I accused the artist of stealing from Matt Groening (the creator of the The Simpsons). I went home last night and found my old School is Hell book and...

Here's the Wall Street Journal cartoon:




Here's the Matt Groening cartoon I was thinking of from 1987:

In my head, the one-eared, Bart rabbit was holding a report card. Cut me a slight break though, I haven't seen this comic in over 20 years. Mistakes were made. That wording is strange enough that I did remember it. I guess it was "influenced" by Groening not stolen from him.

I apologize, sort of.

6 comments:

  1. Bob,

    Probably another case of unintentional or subconcious plagiarism, or not.

    I was accused of this practice with my own brilliant Spiro Agnew speech when I wrote:

    nattering nabobs of negativism.

    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers? I don't think so. Literate alliteration is most difficult.

    Bill

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  2. Bill,

    I always thought you ripped off that Agnew line from me. Remember,

    babbling billabongs of pessimistic pisswater?

    From my article in Cracked Magazine, summer of 1967.

    Bob

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  3. BOB

    PLS EXCUSE BLKBERRY - 8TH HOLE - JUST HIT NICE APPROACH - PAIR OF BUBBLING BILABONGS OF MOLTEN SULFUR PROTECT GREEN. NIXON FOUND THE LEFT. FALWELL THE RIGHT. IRONIC THAT NIXON IS A HOOKER.

    WITH RESPECT TO YOUR ALLITERATION, IT SUCKS. P'S ARE NOT B'S

    BILL

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  4. Bill,

    I'll pay no attention to your pathetic pinpricks of piddling pedantics.

    And I won't point out that you misspelled subconscious.

    Thanks for the comment!

    Bob

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  5. Well nobody would know if that it was true, ever, but the cartoon it's very bad so, I don't see why someone people take it to much importance... money ?
    Thanks

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  6. sometimes I feel like all the height of the world fell over me, when someone talk about this theme, still been hard to me accept all the disgrace that I had to lived after the last crisis.

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