"Naked and Famous" is poorly drawn, poorly written, offensive and not funny

To the editor:

I am writing in regard to the "Naked and Famous" cartoon that appears in The Daily. I believe the paper would benefit from removing this shoddy piece of work.

"Naked and Famous" reflects no imagination or effort. The writing is often messy, and the figures display a pitiable lack of artistic talent. The purpose of cartoons is not to portray anatomically accurate figures, but good cartoons parody the human form in ways that enhance their meaning. In "Naked and Famous" however, the scribbled stick figures add nothing to the scribbled words.

Even if the content were rendered more skillfully, the cartoon would be neither clever nor funny. Sometimes in fact, it is offensive. A recent "Naked and Famous" adorned with the words "Grand Theft Auto: Baghdad" portrays the United States as a street criminal about to throw poor little Saddam Hussein out of his car. The contrast between this representation of Hussein as a victim and the reality of Hussein as a vicious war criminal mirrors the contrast between the cartoon's imagined cleverness and the reality of its artistic and intellectual bankruptcy.

-- Ben Dribus

Physics and math senior
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