Charles Apple

Bob Englehart, editorial cartoonist of The Hartford Courant, made an interesting error in his cartoon depicting Hillary Clinton’s win in last week’s New Hampshire primary.

It’s in the last panel. Let’s see if you can catch it:

That’s right. He drew New Hampshire upside-down.

Editor & Publisher’s Dave Astor reports:

When contacted by E&P, Englehart replied: “Hah! I made a mistake. I was so focused on making a vertical state fit a horizontal space that I didn’t even notice I had made it upside down! Most people didn’t even notice.”

And he quipped: “I hear New Hampshire is changing its slogan to ‘Live Right Side Up, Or Die.’”

Find Englehart’s cartoon blog here. Readers comments on that particular cartoon can be found here.

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UPDATE:

The Associated Press reports:

The state of New Hampshire is getting out of the business of issuing identification cards to members of the news media.

The man who handled the chore — Jim Van Dongen of the state Department of Safety — says the decision is based on the proliferation of online and specialty news outlets and technology that allows just about anyone to call himself a journalist. Van Dongen says that put him and his bosses in the uncomfortable position of issuing cards to all comers or having to decide who is a legitimate journalist.

No great loss, folks. Newspapers will have to create their own laminated press pass ID cards.

And there in New Hampshire, they’ll probably look something like this:

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