Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartoons. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The New Yorker faced "nipplegate" on Facebook


The social network Facebook came down hard on a cartoon from the New Yorker. What ever happened to common sense?

Robert Mankoff of the New Yorker wrote...

The New Yorker has a Facebook page for our cartoons, which a lot of you like, or maybe it’s just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it’s a whole lotta like. We like that.

What we don’t like is that we got temporarily banned from Facebook for violating their community standards on “Nudity and Sex,” by posting this Mick Stevens cartoon:




Sunday, April 1, 2012

Bosko and his labor-saving creation


Bosko in this animated short tires of humdrum chores and creates a mechanical man to relieve him of the tasks.

Bosko [Wikipedia]

Bosko's Mechanical Man

1933