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New York Times Apologizes For Offensive Indian Space Cartoon
New York Times Apologizes For Offensive Indian Space Cartoon
New York Times Apologizes For Offensive Indian Space Cartoon
Comics can be a very powerful medium, either as a catalyst for change or as a way to--even inadvertently--uphold stereotypes. A New York Times cartoon about India's recent, successful mission to send an orbiting spacecraft to Mars fell into the latter category, angering so many people that the newspaper had to openly apologize.
New York Times Rejects Rees & Kupperman's #YesAllWomen Comic
New York Times Rejects Rees & Kupperman's #YesAllWomen Comic
New York Times Rejects Rees & Kupperman's #YesAllWomen Comic
The newspaper comics page often has a surprising amount of political (and simply depressing) content in its colorful panels, but a comic about the feminist #YesAllWomen hashtag and “men’s rights activists” by Get Your War On‘s David Rees and Tales Designed to Thrizzle’s Michael Kupperman proved to be too much for the New York Times editorial page.
Parting Shot: Tim Leong Visualizes NYT’s Best-Selling Comics Of 2012
Parting Shot: Tim Leong Visualizes NYT’s Best-Selling Comics Of 2012
Parting Shot: Tim Leong Visualizes NYT’s Best-Selling Comics Of 2012
With Diamond releasing its lists for the top 500 comics and graphic novels of 2012 today, there's no time like the present to examine the equally interesting -- if more archaic -- New York Times best seller rankings from last year. Tim Leong, Director of Digital Design at Wired and longtime friend of/occasional contributor to ComicsAlliance, has made it easy to take in NYT's paperback bestsellers
The 10 Most Hilarious Quotes From the NY Times 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' Review
The 10 Most Hilarious Quotes From the NY Times 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' Review
The 10 Most Hilarious Quotes From the NY Times 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' Review
Here at ComicsAlliance, we've been eagerly anticipating the release of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark musical since we first heard that amazingly terrible title, and this weekend the moment came that we've been waiting for: The very first preview performance. Opening night is still a few weeks away -- barring any further delays like the ones that kept it from opening as planned last Febr
Jason Lutes Illustrates Our Economic Hubris at the New York Times
Jason Lutes Illustrates Our Economic Hubris at the New York Times
Jason Lutes Illustrates Our Economic Hubris at the New York Times
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman talks about the collective self-congratulation of economists that went before last year's terrible economic fall at The New York Times, with supporting illustrations by Jason Lutes, the creator of the critically-acclaimed "Berlin" graphic novels...