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Friday, January 31, 2003
Glenn Reynolds points to this story about Daimler-Chrysler revising a Bill Mauldlin cartoon in tribute to Mauldin. The cartoon takes the classic Mauldin cartoon of a GI in anguish about to shoot a broken-down Jeep with his Colt sidearm and remakes it into an image of the same GI picking up a box of tissues from the hood of the same Jeep. I'm more conflicted about this story myself. It appears to me that Daimler-Chrysler wasn't reworking the image because they didn't think the original PC enough, rather my guess is that they were trying, and failing, to do an image similar to Warner Brothers' heart-breaking cartoon "Speechless" on the occasion of Mel Blanc's death. Unfortunately, they failed.
Robin 8:58 AM
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