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America’s defenders of the First Amendment have decided that a comic strip criticizing President Joe Biden’s transgender policies is more freedom of speech than Americans ought to be allowed to see. The media conglomerate Gannett, which formerly used the slogan “A World of Different Voices Where Freedom Speaks,” recently banned the strip “Mallard Fillmore” from its publications, according to a report in The Washington Times. Bruce Tinsley, who created the comic strip, said King Features, which syndicates his work, told him about the latest episode of America’s cancel culture at work “It was a big shock. From what I’m hearing,...

Last week, after watching the Half Hour News Hour, I compared it to the Daily show only to realize that Fox news has once again validated one of my principles. It is my belief that only conservatives can truly understand humor at any level. For the propose of this article I will focus on one of the subjects I know best, comic strips. This is an area that conservative humor really shines through; which is easily seen since most successful comics have been written by conservatives (especially with political comics). Now there are some liberal comic strips that do well...

Right-wing cartoonist Edward Bruce Tinsley, who draws the conservative Mallard Fillmore strip, has been arrested and charged with two criminal misdemeanor counts for operating a motor vehicle under the influence with a blood alcohol level over 0.08 percent (Class C) and for operating a vehicle under the influence in a manner that endangers a person (Class A)

You have to click the link to see the image (no hotlinking allowed), but in today's cartoon, it says: "Mallard's More-Relevant School Bumper Sticker #30: My daughter was suspended for wearing a patriotic tee-shirt to school.*" The asterisk points to the disclaimer at the bottom which says: "* = True Story. See DenverPost.com or FreeRepublic.com"

Bruce Tinsley, creator of the conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore, remembers feeling stunned when the fan letter showed up in February 1998. After all, his strip— featuring a right-leaning TV newsman or, more accurately, newsduck—was still in its relative infancy. Yet here was George Herbert Walker Bush declaring that he and Barbara turned to Mallard, “sage duck that he is,” first thing every morning. Even more gratifying, the former president thanked Tinsley for taking on “that horrible Doonesbury” and its creator, liberal icon Garry Trudeau, “a guy that tore me up in a vicious, personal way strip after strip.” By...

What would have been a quiet holiday weekend for the blogosphere, has instead been energized by a single post, on a brand new site. It's about courage, a newspaper reporter not afraid to make waves in a stuffy, elitist atmosphere. And it proves that nothing has changed in America's newsrooms since last year's Rathergate. How could Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray be virtually alone in demanding Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley back up her absurd statement, that American troops were intentionally targeting journalists in Iraq?

Much ado about a duck By Christine Chinlund | February 21, 2005 IF A RECENT "Mallard Fillmore" comic strip hadn't raised the issue of The Duck's longevity, maybe, just maybe, I could have avoided another column about the comics. But in a Feb. 11 "Mallentine" day message, Bruce Tinsley, creator of the conservative duck commentator, thanked his fans and told readers that without their calls and letters of support, "Mallard wouldn't last an hour." Perhaps he should have put it another way. "Does this mean if I e-mail saying how unfunny this foul fowl is, you'll get rid of this...

Looks like Mallard Fillmore has company--another conservative comic strip, which I just stumbled across. "About Prickly City A small town in the American Southwest... everything in the desert is designed to prick you, wound you or eat you. What better metaphor for 21st century Earth? PRICKLY CITY is a comic strip about the friendship between Winslow, a coyote pup, and Carmen, a straight and narrow kind of kid. PRICKLY CITY offers a _conservative_ perspective on political and social events within an ongoing storyline. As Carmen might say, "We may not be correct but we will always be right."

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YOU DID IT, FREEPERS! Because of calls and letters, the comic strip Mallard Fillmore was put back into the Spokane Spokesman-Review! When I called to thank them, the person on the phone said the strip was "more popular" than Doonesbury, based on the calls they received, but they put both back, "for balance." the only problem is they put them both in the classified section! But one battle at a time....

The second-to-last line of this past Sunday's "Doonesbury" has to be read to be believed and even then I fear readers will accuse me of making it up: "You are all jingoistic self-regarding conquer-monkeys!" The full eight panel cartoon was a mini sermon -- in French -- chiding American readers for the weeks-old controversy over "freedom" fries. I hereby nominate it as the worst single cartoon in the history of the strip. Admittedly, the last few months have offered a lot of competition; it's been almost a race to the bottom. There was the preachy strip in which the Rev....

SAVE MALLARD FILLMORE IN THE SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW! The editors of the Spokesman-Review have taken the conversative duck out of their pages! Other papers have returned Mallard to their pages after hearing from fans, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencier, the Denver Post, the Wichita Eagle, the Roanake Times... just to name a few. We need to laugh! We need the duck! We need a conservative comic strip! Tell the editors to return the Mallard Fillmore to their newspaper! Write the paper at editor@spokesman.com .

Posted on Sun, Sep. 29, 2002 Input wanted on 'toons, interviews Cartoons can be a third rail for newspaper editors: Touch them, and you die. But I'm wondering whether to keep or dump the "Doonesbury" and "Mallard Fillmore" cartoons that we publish Monday through Saturday on these pages, and I'd like your input. Personally, I'm not a big fan of either feature. "Doonesbury" seems timeworn and often doesn't make a meaningful point. And "Mallard" is usually a variation on a single theme: Liberals are dumb. I don't receive many reader comments about "Doonesbury" (which could be good or bad). But...