PRESS CLIPPINGS
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“After all that had been said and written, it was a cartoon that pushed the Mets over the edge. But then it wasn’t just any cartoon…The Page Six cartoon humbles some public figures practically every day, but no one could remember [Delonas] previously tackling the rather delicate subject of celebrity masturbation.” —New York Daily News, Bob Klapisch and John Harper, 03/28/1993 [on the 1992 NY Mets decision to boycott the press].
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"DO WE really need to see two sperm cells - one drawn like Bill Clinton...swimming and chatting, presumably inside Monica Lewinsky's mouth?..." -- Letters to the editor, New York Post, 07/06/1998. "I haven't had an alcoholic drink between shows for at least 15 years or more," Sue Simmons said [NBC 4 NY]. "Not one word of [the cartoon] is true." …Luckily, the tabloid's eternally polite cartoonist Sean Delonas doesn't let silly things like denials get in the way of his art." -- New York Magazine, May 15, 2008. |
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"...thoroughly vulgar" -- Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 2/23/2009
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"Sean Delonas ... is a national treasure." -- John Derbyshire, National Review, 01/10/2008
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"I'M APPALLED at Sean Delonas...What that darn fish represents, I shudder to think!" -- Letters to the Editor, New York Post, 05/27/1998.
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“Page Six cartoonist Sean Delonas stands out as a witty and vicious talent…Some critics say Delonas can’t draw, others find his humor elusive or crude, we just find his daily shots as essential as the the first cup of coffee.” -- New York Press, Best Daily Cartoonist, 09/1992
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"...the Teletubbies didn't even exist in 1963. How could ...[Delonas's] mindless cartoon depicting members of the Teletubbies troupe laying in ambush on the sixth floor of the Texas school book depository for the express purpose of assassinating President Kennedy?..." --B.K. Letters to the Editor, New York Post, April 10, 1998. |
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“His technical abilities are admirable; we'll leave it up to you to judge his mental state.” — Jossip, 2009
“His technical abilities are admirable; we'll leave it up to you to judge his mental state.” — Jossip, 2009
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“The New York Post might want to call it’s editorial cartoonist, Sean Delonas, the third Bosch.” — Village Voice, Cynthia Cotts, 8/17/2006
"Delonas’s image implies much more than it shows, and we can’t help but imagine what is about to be said. Whatever the reason, it does what all successful graphic art must do: present an unforgettable image that resonates in the mind..."
-- Commentary Magazine, September 28, 2007 Michael Lewis |
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“Sean Delonas’s work is ill-drawn…clumsy…Neanderthal…” — Time Magazine, Robert Hughes. |
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“... a [Delonas] cartoon that appeared in the New York Post’…’the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.’” -- Jennifer Aniston, Jonathan Meter’s article, Vogue, 12/01/2008
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“…is powerful, technically brilliant, and revealing of the artist’s extensive study in traditional art and anatomy.” — Learning from Today’s Art Masters, American Artist, 1995 |
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"'VIVE La Welfare,' Sean Delonas' cartoon...[is] ignorant...to suggest that the desperate Haitian boat people are celebrating in anticipation of the bounty in the welfare state of America..." --Letters to the editor, New York Post, 05/21/1994. |
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“The Dirty Doodler” — George Magazine, Ruth Davis, 08/1999
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"Sean Delonas Has Left the New York Post. Page Six just won’t be the same without him.” --National Review, Greg Pollowitz, 06/02/2013
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“Sean Delonas is, without question, the funniest, most creative and most politically-incorrect cartoonist of his generation.” — Boston Herald, Ken Chandler former Editor-In-Chief.
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"Lt. Gov. John Sanchez (R) said the cartoon was “wrong.” “I’m offended as a Republican, and I’m offended as a conservative, that [Delonas] would try to depict Democrats as thugs and terrorists.” - THE WASHINGTON POST, Samantha Schmidt, Feb. 9, 2018
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"It is magnificent." -- John Cardinal O'Connor, on viewing the triptych altar painting at the consecration of the Church of St. Agnes, January, 1998. |
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“The Picasso Of Prejudice” — Gawker, 10/05/06
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"stunningly offensive… " -- Michael Daly, New York Daily News
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"The 100 Unsexiest Men of the Year 2009: 96. Sean Delonas." [Which means he's only 4 away from being sexy] —The Boston Phoenix, 2009.
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“Inventive…gorgeous illustrations…charming tale.” — PBS [review of the book Scuttle’s Big Wish which I co-wrote and illustrated with my son Ryan].
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“”Laugh out loud funny picture book children will love…” — Children’s Book Review [review of the book Scuttle’s Big Wish which I co-wrote and illustrated with my son Ryan].
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"Delonas’ cartoons – incisive, perverse, gleefully vicious – are never boring." -- NY POST, Feb 9, 2006
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"New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas often pushes the envelope, but in recent days he probably pushed it too far. Delonas drew two big-nosed Jewish doctors ready to operate with a chain saw on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has cancer. A line across Farrakhan's neck indicates the area to be sliced. As if that weren't enough, one of the doctors is saying: "Vadda Yuh Vorried About Yuh Big Meshuganah, You're in Good Hands.”
--Howard Kurtz, March 29, 1999 , Washington Post "I was certain I had seen the absolutely lowest common denominator...from [Delonas] yesterday with [his]...Milli Vanilli masterpiece, but [he] practically dropped of the face of the Western Hemisphere with today's deliberately sacrilegious, ...blasphemous cartoon depicting President Clinton dabbing ketchup onto a holy communion wafer." --Letters to the Editor, April 8, 1998. |
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“Speaker of the House Tom Foley practically shot throughout the Capitol dome when he saw Friday’s Delonas cartoon on the Post’s Page Six…’It’s in the worst possible taste.’ Hmmmmm. Bad taste? In a Post cartoon?” — New York Newsday, Doug Vaughan and Anthony Scaduto, 2/21/1993.
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“…finally have a show of Delonas’ fine art, demonstrating …that he can party like it’s 1499… I’ve heard his drawing style compared to that of Albrecht Durer, and that is an accurate if obvious comparison.” — Manhattan Spirit Tim Cavanaugh.
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... character, Scar [played by Glenn Fitzgerald], from CBS's “New York News” was " drawn from that wacky talent, Sean Delonas." -- Pulitzer Prize winner, Mike McAlary, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, August 2, 1995.
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"Sean Delonas is the worst editorial cartoonist in New York City, perhaps in all of North America..." - Larry Doyle, New York magazine, 1994
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"Sean Delonas may be the worst cartoonist on the planet." -- Vanity Fair, Feb 18, 2009
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"Biting, sarcastic political cartooning is an American tradition, but Delonas has reduced it to the depths of depravity." -- Dan Wallack, New York Magazine, August 1, 1994
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"Sean Delonas, one of the great humorists..." -- Editorial NewYork Sun, December 20, 2006
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"Sen. Tom Udall, D- N.M., decried the cartoon on Twitter, writing, "Words and images are still hateful and offensive, even when they appear in a cartoon."[Delonas] shared his delight with the attention the cartoon has garnered. 'Today, U.S. Senators and state lawmakers, all Democrats, from New Mexico took time out of their busy pay-to-play schedules to condemn me. Always enjoyed upsetting politicians, makes me feel like I'm back at the NY Post.'" -NPR, Vanessa Romma, February 9, 2018
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"…Delonas, one of New York's most gifted editorial cartoonists … ranks up with Thomas Nast for hilariously savage mockery..." -- City Journal, Harry Stein, Winter 2001 |
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"a bizarre cross between Jack Davis of Mad Magazine and Hieronymous Bosch." -- Commentary Magazine, Michael Lewis, October 2003. |
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"The claim that the cartoon was a racist caricature of President Obama is awfully far-fetched. It played off a news item involving an actual chimp… The president did not write the stimulus bill; …And anyone who is familiar with Delonas's surrealistic oeuvre knows that he is an equal-opportunity offender. His work is in the spirit of "South Park," not Stepin Fetchit.
Consider the paradox: Racial "sensitivity" requires not eradicating racial stereotypes but keeping them alive--and not only keeping them alive but remaining acutely conscious of them at all times. Delonas and his editors are under attack for seeing "chimp" and failing to think "black guy." Perhaps this is an editorial failing, but it is certainly not a moral one." - James Taranto, Feb. 20, 2009, Wall Street Journal |
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“Delonas has a long…rich history…including such hilarious pieces as the good old ‘gay marriage leads to sheep marriage’ classic, and the brilliant observation that big-nosed Muslim terrorists were really stoked about Democratic wins in the 2006 elections. Comic genius!” - Feb. 20. 2009, Mother Jones. |
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