A note on Saturday’s editorial cartoon, and an apology
Saturday’s editorial cartoon is by Dave Granlund, a Minnesota-based political cartoonist whose work has been syndicated nationally since 1978.
Granlund also is responsible for the cartoon published on Monday’s Aspen Times opinion page. That cartoon depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poking a beehive labeled “Hamas.” Some readers took offense at that cartoon, mostly on the grounds that it appeared to apply a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas when there is none.
We apologize for publishing Monday’s cartoon and the pain it caused readers. The Aspen Times is committed to a vibrant opinion page that welcomes an open dialogue and a wide variety of viewpoints expressed in its letters, columns, editorials, and cartoons. Toward that end, we encourage those who disagree with Monday’s cartoon to share their criticisms with us as letters and columns. We are happy to publish them.
Finally, we thought it appropriate to give readers a more complete picture of Granlund’s perspective on Israel and Hamas by publishing Saturday’s cartoon, drawn several days after the earlier cartoon, which was drawn in the hours after news of the Hamas attack broke.
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