Roger Ebert Would Have Given His Obit Cartoons Two Thumbs Down

[pokerfan]

Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist) nails it...

Even though many cartoonists were quick to draw the non-religious Roger Ebert in heaven after his death, Matt Bors took the far more sensible route and mocked the whole idea of it:

I’m not sure that Roger Ebert, an outspoken secular humanist who didn’t believe in an afterlife, would have appreciated being depicted in heaven with Gene Siskel, no less. They were co-workers who disliked each other, not soul mates.

Finally, some honesty. Bors’ drawing is unique, unlike the other cartoons. I only wish it were longer!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/04/10/roger-ebert-would-have-given-his-obit-cartoons-two-thumbs-down/

[progressoid]

1. I read similar comments on a couple sites about his death.

Like he and Gene are watching movies in heaven etc.

Must remember to stop reading comments by the general public. It's depressing.

[pokerfan]

2. I must remember

that tributes, memorials, funerals, etc. are for the living, not the dead... who are well, dead. So if that's how they want to remember him, who am I to disagree.

[Lordquinton]

3. If that's how they remember him

then did they really know who he was as a person in the first place?

[pokerfan]

4. Cartoonists are lazy

Roger Ebert died? Let's picture him meeting Gene Siskel in heaven giving each other two thumbs up. It's just so mindless.

[onager]

5. If Ebert could see those 'toons...

I bet they'd get a review similar to Ebert's smackdown of Vincent Gallo's movie "The Brown Bunny:"

"I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than 'The Brown Bunny.'"

Or Ebert's treatment of Rob Schneider and his epic cinematic achievement "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."

Patrick Goldstein gutted that turkey in the L.A. TIMES. Schneider wrote Goldstein a furious letter/press release, basically saying Goldstein was a nobody and hadn't even won a Pulitzer Prize or anything. Ergo, Goldstein was "unqualified" to review a masterpiece like "Deuce Bigblow."

Ebert wrote to Schneider: "As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."