I’ve posted in the past in defense of Pepe Le Pew, General “Black Jack” Logan, Davy Crockett and R.E.Lee, and I have little to add today to those comments, except to note all those men as well as that sexist skunk were (I thought) past our power to harm. Today I’m defending a living artist. To dismiss him as a mere “cartoonist” and so justify leaving him to the wolves while we continue our mad race to cultural extinction entirely misses the point. Breaking a man’s rice bowl because you disagree with what he says is fundamentally un-American.