{"id":290,"date":"2005-05-21T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/21\/cartoon-controversy-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2005-05-21T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T16:19:47","slug":"cartoon-controversy-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/21\/cartoon-controversy-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Controversy of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5168'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/lobelfuz.gif\" width=\"537\" height=\"186\"><\/p>\n<p>So here is the Friday the 13th edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.com\/comics\/getfuzzy\/archive\/getfuzzy-20050513.html\">Get<br \/>\n          Fuzzy <\/a>cartoon which<br \/>\n        has sparked so much controversy, dominated local sports radio, and sparked<br \/>\n        a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/articles\/2005\/05\/21\/lobel_files_libel_suit_in_response_to_get_fuzzy_strip\/\"> lawsuit <\/a>by<br \/>\n        Boston sportscaster Bob Lobel against the Boston cartoonist Darby Conley.<\/p>\n<p>Conley is, obviously, a Red Sox fan, and his strips frequently reference<br \/>\n        the team, players, and the nemesis NYY. The controversial strip has been<br \/>\n        pulled from several papers, and in the Boston Globe Lobel&#8217;s name was<br \/>\n        replaced by the pronoun &quot;him&quot;. In addition, pursuant to the lawsuit,<br \/>\n        the strip has been removed from the Get Fuzzy archives, but your ever-alert<br \/>\n        correspondent managed to find a copy of the banned artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Since Get Fuzzy is only carried in a handful of papers, you might need<br \/>\n        a scorecard to keep the players straight.&nbsp; Here they are:<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/RobWilco.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>This<br \/>\n        is Rob Wilco.&nbsp;He is a kind of nerdy, ironic loser, who works in<br \/>\n        an ad agency and whose social life seems to consist of talking to, and<br \/>\n        dealing with the problems of, his &quot;pets&quot; Bucky and Satchel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/BuckyKatt.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>This<br \/>\n        is Bucky Kat.&nbsp;He is egotistical, carnivorous, sarcastic, dismissive<br \/>\n        of both Satchel and Rob, and locked in a mortal feud with the ferret<br \/>\n        next door.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/SatchelPooch.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<p>This is Satchel,<br \/>\n      he is good-hearted, dumb, literal, who tries to be man&#8217;s &#8211; and Kat&#8217;s &#8211; best<br \/>\n      friend but usually ends up the but of jokes he doesn&#8217;t get.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Now,  it may seem that Conley has something against Bob Lobel,<br \/>\n        (he wouldn&#8217;t be the first or only one),  the preeminent TV<br \/>\n        sports reporter and commentator in Boston for over 10 years, but any<br \/>\n        local sports fan with a TV has noticed something weird about Lobel&#8217;s<br \/>\n        diction<br \/>\n        lately. He has definitely been slightly slurring his words, and looking goofy-happy, not as much<br \/>\n        as Joe Namath on the sidelines last fall, but leaning in the same general<br \/>\n      direction.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are MANY things, temporary, permanent, ingested, organic<br \/>\n        or emotional, which can cause the drop in muscle and tissue tension the<br \/>\n        human ear hears as a slur. Believe us, not only are we a professional<br \/>\n        in the<br \/>\n        phonetics<br \/>\n      and pronunciation of the English language, but have over the years acquired<br \/>\n        a long and deep first-hand familiarity with many of the conditions causing<br \/>\n        slurring.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on this vast body of knowledge, we can categorically state that<br \/>\n      Bob Lobel has NOT been under the influence of alcohol during his recent<br \/>\n        TV appearances.<\/p>\n<p>If we had to hazard a guess, we would go for a balanced combination<br \/>\n      of oxy-contin, a relatively unknown blood pressure medication called Lisinopril,<br \/>\n      and a commercially available horse tranquilizer marketed as Ketaset, but<br \/>\n      known among aficionados as &quot;vitamin K&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>This makes sense, as Lobel recently returned from covering the Kentucky<br \/>\n      Derby, but don&#8217;t quote us on that.&nbsp; And please don&#8217;t sue us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>article from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/articles\/2005\/05\/21\/lobel_files_libel_suit_in_response_to_get_fuzzy_strip\/\"> Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here is the Friday the 13th edition of the Get Fuzzy cartoon which has sparked so much controversy, dominated local sports radio, and sparked a lawsuit by Boston sportscaster Bob Lobel against the Boston cartoonist Darby Conley. Conley is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/21\/cartoon-controversy-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}