The paper said that it has asked Britt to remove that affiliation from the Sept 28 cartoon.As of Tuesday, the affiliation still appeared on the cartoon as published on the website GoComics.com, which had received a handful of complaints by Tuesday.Britt says that he and his syndicate mutually decided to remove the Sept 28 cartoon from his Creators.com page, where most of the artist's recent cartoons mock Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump - including last Wednesday's visual commentary, which parodies the judge's calendar entries.Britt says that he has received multiple death threats as a result of the Sept 28 cartoon and that he has filed a report with law enforcement. A left-wing editorial cartoonist faced backlash over the weekend for drawing a cartoon that critics say mocked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's 10-year-old daughter, Liza.The cartoon by Chris Britt depicted the girl saying, "Dear God, please forgive my angry, lying, alcoholic father for sexually assaulting Dr. [Christine] Ford," while praying before bed.In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Kavanaugh told lawmakers that Liza had said to her mother, Ashley, that "we should pray" for Ford. Until we resolve the issues, subscribers need not log in to access ST Digital articles. The page was later removed from public view.A biography of Britt on the Creators Syndicate website called him "a self-described liberal [who] nevertheless delights in skewering deserving politicians of every persuasion." All rights reserved. "SPH Digital News / Copyright © 2020 Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co. Regn. The weekly paper tweeted a clarification to say that while Britt is a regular freelance contributor to the Times, the newspaper's name "should not have appeared in the cartoon. He added: "The cartoon is not about his daughter - it's about Brett Kavanaugh's possible heavy drinking, his anger and his possibly sexually assaulting Doctor Ford. "Kavanaugh is the one who ushered his own daughter into the national conversation by telling us his story" about her prayer, Britt said, defending the cartoon. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

Get unlimited access at $0.99/month* "The Illinois Times, however, says that it never published the cartoon. A left-wing editorial cartoonist faced backlash over the weekend for drawing a cartoon that critics say mocked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's 10-year-old daughter, Liza. "The cartoon uses as fodder the opening statement by Kavanaugh during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, when he recounted that Liza had said to her mother that "we should pray for the woman," Christine Blasey Ford.Kavanaugh's testimony was directly preceded by that of Ford, the California professor who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s, when both were Maryland prep-school students. "In a Facebook statement Monday, the Illinois Times said Britt was "a regular contributor," but "not an employee." "Many critics of the cartoon objected to his choosing to depict Kavanaugh's younger daughter, however, and a firestorm began to heat up Sunday, after the Twitter user @vbspurs complained about the work to the Illinois Times, writing that the commentary "contravenes every standard of decency in our society. "An email to Britt requesting comment was not immediately returned. All market data delayed 20 minutes. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - It's a line that staff and syndicated political cartoonists rarely cross.You don't parody or lampoon the children of political figures if they are minors, the common belief goes - much in the same way that White House correspondents generally don't write about the personal lives of underage members of the first family.Last week, however, veteran cartoonist Chris Britt decided to cross that line with an image that since Sunday has sparked a blast of sharp blowback.Britt's Sept 28 cartoon, as distributed by the Creators syndicate, depicts 10-year-old Liza Kavanaugh praying about her father, Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. No. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. A controversial cartoon depicts Brett Kavanaugh's daughter, Liza, saying her prayers. On his Facebook page, Britt responded to one critic by saying "I'm not the one who brought up his children. Cartoonist Chris Britt recently mocked U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s 10-year-old daughter Liza in a caricature he drew and posted to Facebook. One cartoon that Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the early 1980s, when they were both in high school.The cartoon displayed Friday's date as well as the name of the Illinois Times, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Springfield.

Kneeling bedside, she says: "Dear God, forgive my angry, lying, alcoholic father for sexually assaulting Dr Ford. The left-wing … Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday criticized a cartoon which depicts Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's 10-year-old daughter, Liza. Brett 'I LOVE BEER' Kavanaugh brought them up." "The Illinois Times name should not have appeared on the cartoon in question and we have asked Chris Britt to remove it. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.Some social media users have called Britt's latest Kavanaugh cartoon "horrific," "unconscionable" and "beyond disgusting. He has previously drawn for The Seattle Times, the Houston Post, The News-Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. and the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., from where he was laid off in January 2012.Prior to the cartoon of Kavanaugh's daughter, Creators Syndicate published seven cartoons by Britt related to the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh.