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Cartoonist Fired After Advertiser Complaints, Cartoons Now Get A Far Larger Audience

Published Wed, 04 May 2016 11:00:18 -0500

This is a cartoon by Rick Friday of Farm News, a weekly magazine published by The Fort Dodge Messenger,

And as a result, Rick is no longer "of Farm News". He posted on Facebook,

I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of It's Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.

I did my research and only submitted the facts in my cartoon.

That's okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech and free press really are in the country.

Remember, apparently it's only censorship when the government does it. According to people who don't look the word up in the dictionary.

The Des Moines Register reports that Farm News publisher "couldn't say… why Farm News would no longer run Friday's cartoons, adding that it was an editorial decision" and that editor Larry Kershner "said he couldn't comment about the decision." But also that "DuPont and Monsanto officials said the companies were unaware of the cartoon until the media brought it to their attention."

Rick has a few new cartoons for this week.