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Capitalist Piglet
Capitalist Piglet is a comic strip that appeared briefly in The Sheaf from 2005 to 2006. It is best known for a controversial instalment depicting Jesus Christ performing fellatio on a cartoon pig.
The strip was a collaboration between cartoonist Mark Watson (aka Marq) and Jeff MacDonald (aka Y!ph) and appeared infrequently in The Sheaf, the University of Saskatchewan's student-run newspaper.
Pages B1–B4 of the February 22, 2006 issue of The Sheaf were devoted to several lengthy opinion articles and letters addressing the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. The Sheaf editor-in-chief, Will Robbins, wrote a 1,000-word editorial prefacing the other opinions outlining the reasons behind The Sheaf's editorial decision not to publish the controversial cartoons. Robbins also indicated that the decision not to publish the cartoons was not unanimous among the editorial staff.
In response to this decision, The Sheaf news editor, Jeremy Warren, resigned from the paper. The journalistic position Robbins staked for The Sheaf was brought into question just one week later by the appearance of a controversial instalment of the Capitalist Piglet cartoon.
In the March 2, 2006 issue of The Sheaf, a two-panel instalment of the comic strip appeared in the paper's "Comics and Humour" section depicting a caricature of Jesus performing fellatio on a top-hatted, monocle-wearing pig. The second panel includes the pig saying "It's Kosher if you don't swallow."
The comic had been scanned and laid out into the newspaper's publication software by the graphics editor. The editor-in-chief reviewed the first draft of the paper and marked the Capitalist Piglet comic for deletion from the issue. It is disputed whether he also verbally instructed the graphics editor to remove it; regardless, the comic was not removed. The issue went through several more revisions before going to print without the offending comic being withdrawn. The editor-in-chief later claimed this was a mistake due in part to a staff shortage (ostensibly aggravated by the resignation of the news editor).
In a retraction published on page A2 of the March 9, 2006 issue, The Sheaf stated that Mark Watson was not an author of the March 2, 2006 Capitalist Piglet cartoon. In a letter appearing in that same issue, Watson explained that his colleague, Y!ph, added his name to the instalment "because he was using my character". In the same issue, Jeff MacDonald accepted full responsibility for authoring the comic.
On March 3, 2006, University of Saskatchewan President Peter MacKinnon called for an apology from The Sheaf in a university-wide email.
Capitalist Piglet
Capitalist Piglet is a comic strip that appeared briefly in The Sheaf from 2005 to 2006. It is best known for a controversial instalment depicting Jesus Christ performing fellatio on a cartoon pig.
The strip was a collaboration between cartoonist Mark Watson (aka Marq) and Jeff MacDonald (aka Y!ph) and appeared infrequently in The Sheaf, the University of Saskatchewan's student-run newspaper.
Pages B1–B4 of the February 22, 2006 issue of The Sheaf were devoted to several lengthy opinion articles and letters addressing the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. The Sheaf editor-in-chief, Will Robbins, wrote a 1,000-word editorial prefacing the other opinions outlining the reasons behind The Sheaf's editorial decision not to publish the controversial cartoons. Robbins also indicated that the decision not to publish the cartoons was not unanimous among the editorial staff.
In response to this decision, The Sheaf news editor, Jeremy Warren, resigned from the paper. The journalistic position Robbins staked for The Sheaf was brought into question just one week later by the appearance of a controversial instalment of the Capitalist Piglet cartoon.
In the March 2, 2006 issue of The Sheaf, a two-panel instalment of the comic strip appeared in the paper's "Comics and Humour" section depicting a caricature of Jesus performing fellatio on a top-hatted, monocle-wearing pig. The second panel includes the pig saying "It's Kosher if you don't swallow."
The comic had been scanned and laid out into the newspaper's publication software by the graphics editor. The editor-in-chief reviewed the first draft of the paper and marked the Capitalist Piglet comic for deletion from the issue. It is disputed whether he also verbally instructed the graphics editor to remove it; regardless, the comic was not removed. The issue went through several more revisions before going to print without the offending comic being withdrawn. The editor-in-chief later claimed this was a mistake due in part to a staff shortage (ostensibly aggravated by the resignation of the news editor).
In a retraction published on page A2 of the March 9, 2006 issue, The Sheaf stated that Mark Watson was not an author of the March 2, 2006 Capitalist Piglet cartoon. In a letter appearing in that same issue, Watson explained that his colleague, Y!ph, added his name to the instalment "because he was using my character". In the same issue, Jeff MacDonald accepted full responsibility for authoring the comic.
On March 3, 2006, University of Saskatchewan President Peter MacKinnon called for an apology from The Sheaf in a university-wide email.