Lefty Magazine Writer: Monkey Cartoon Not Racist

"It's not that funny; it's just not racist either." [Mother Jones]

"It's not that funny; it's just not racist either." [Mother Jones]

The New York Post has been getting angry phone calls all day because of Sean Delonas' dead monkey cartoon. Especially the people of Page Six, where the cartoon ran. It's not their fault, angry people!
The outcry over New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas' dead monkey cartoon today is growing louder. But he has such a rich history! We assembled ten of his all-time classics of hate:
• Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the son of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is joining the paper next week as a Metro reporter. [NYO]
• Following a huge fourth quarter loss, Playboy says it's now up for sale. [Folio]
• It's rumored that Viacom is laying off staff today. [Gawker]
• Newsweek staffers are…
Regarding this morning's Sean Delonas monkey cartoon, a tipster tells us that New York Post is already getting lots of calls about it—some threatening to burn their building down! [Previously]
Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Post's Sean Delonas cartoon today. In other news: on this day in 1688, the first formal protest against slavery by an organized white body in English America was made.
New York Post editorial cartoonist Sean Delonas is known for his distinctive visual style, his keen grasp of current events, and his virulent, hateful homophobia. Seriously, at least once a week he commits a hate crime to paper. So his take on Thomas Beatie, the pregnant transgendered man, is predictably nuanced and…
The Wall Street Journal has a cartoon called "Pepper... And Salt" which — and I did not know this after 12 years of reading the Journal — has been "edited since 1950 by Charles Preston... [and] is culled from hundreds of submissions each week." Anyway, the 'toon was once in the paper's Arts & Leisure section, and it…
John Derbyshire, the eccentric conservative English opinion writer who loves adolescent girls and hates the troops, invites you to check out the brilliant work of New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas. "I think my all-time favorite — which annoyingly I can't find on the web — is the one of Bill and Hill as hogs…
This photo is from Rosie O'Donnell's flickr page. It's of a painting by Sean Delonas, who Rosie has identified, in her teenager-poetry way, only as "an artist/I have never met." We didn't know that Sean and Rosie had never been introduced, and we'd like to acquaint them better. Rosie, meet Sean. We'd like to…
We're a little late on this one, but we do like to mention friends of the site whenever they've done something of note. So we want to congratulate our good pal Sean Delonas, who was named one of GLAAD's "2006 Anti-Gay Defamation Offenders." Delonas shares the honor with virulent homophobe James Dobson and columnist…
While many have chosen to disparage the massive bonuses "earned" by Wall Street figures this year, the stout souls at the New York Sun, whose failure to produce a financially viable business model has surely engendered their respect for any sort of fiscal acumen, take a stand for the billionaires. In an editorial…
Thanks to the scores of readers who wrote in to explain that the frog in the Sean Delonas cartoon was, in fact, wheelchair-dependent because the French like to eat frog legs and not, as we supposed, some kind of commentary on the struggle in Iraq that has left so many of our soldiers limbless. We had no clue! A…
Rather than go through the usual task of identifying the litany of homophobic elements in today's Sean Delonas cartoon, we're just gonna put the question to you directly: Why is the frog in a wheelchair? Our guess is because he got his limbs blown off in a quagmire of a conflict that his grossly incompetent…
Jim Romenesko directs us to a profile of "homophobic and unfunny Post caricaturist" Sean Delonas in the NJ Daily Record. Sean has written a children's book with his son Ryan called Scuttle's Big Wish. "It's about a mouse who wishes everything he touches would turn to cheese," says Ryan, and the paper notes how…
Okay, we'll ignore the canard that the Democratic wins in Tuesday's election somehow buoy the spirits of terrorists and just focus on the actual, um, "art" in today's Sean Delonas cartoon: the phallic weaponry isn't actually bad (although, as a recurring obsession of Sean's, you'd think he'd be able to draw penises…
Here's today's Sean Delonas cartoon from the Post. It depicts a beleaguered President Bush (the character with the "W" button on) in the moments before voter anger (the character in the "voting booth") over Iraq (note the "Iraq" map and tank the president is playing with) causes the final domino (the crescent of…