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niversity of Michigan
sophomore Judd Win-
ick found himself at
the center of a minor con-
troversy two months ago.
Since February of 1988,
Winick has been drawing the
"Nuts and Bolts" cartoon
strip for the student-run

Michigan Daily.

The strip is a mixture of
commentary, humor and
topical banter. "Basically, I
draw for myself," says the Dix
Hills, N.Y. native.
"Sometimes I go for an easy
joke; sometimes I'm trying to
make a point. Sometimes I'm
not sure exactly what the
things mean that I say."
The strip has three main
characters: Levon, who
Winick fondly describes as
naive and liberal; V.J., the
cynic, who sports a pony tail
and is a retired Harvard pro-
fessor; and Lumus, a
freshman at U-M.
Winick's problems began
with the introduction of a new
character. "The whole thing
started with Oscar Word-
sworth Pennington III,"
Winick recalls. Oscar is a pig
whose politics are to the right
of center. "I put him into the
strip to keep things going,"
says Winick.
After Oscar's appearance,
some readers wanted to make

mincemeat of Oscar and his
creator. The found the strip
distasteful; some called it
racist and anti-Semitic. "I
found it ignorant that he had
ideas about Jews that weren't
true — that they had big
noses, that they kept kosher,
for example," says Paul
Crystal, a psychology junior.
"But what bothered me the
most was the reaction of the
character Levon as if being
thought of as a Jew were an
insult."
Crystal wasn't the only one
who felt that way. Catherine
Arnott called Winick an il-
literate bigot in a letter to the
Daily. A number of Jewish
students and U-M staff who
have been particularly
unhappy with the Daily's opi-
nion and editorial pages felt
that the cartoon was another
example of what they called
the paper's Jew-bashing.

Winick, who is Jewish and
belongs to Alpha Epsilon Pi,
a Jewish fraternity, was of-
fended at being called anti-
Semitic and was surprised by
the reaction. "I don't even
know that the characters are
Jewish," he says. He also took
offense at the connection peo-
ple made between the opi-
nions of the Daily and his
work. "No one tells me what
to do," Winick says. "I don't
even have an editor."
Winick says his political
viewpoints and the opinion

page's are often at odds.
Winick decided to issue an
apology in the form of a strip.
"But I would not have done it
if I couldn't make a joke out
of it," he says.
Controversy surrounding
cartoons seems to come with
the territory.
Winick has just put the
finishing touches on a cartoon
about the subject. "I got tired
of all the protest on campus,"
says the self-styled liberal.
The result? A strip about
MIPWARF, a hypothetical
group whose initials stand for
Middle Income People
Against Racist Foliage.
It wouldn't surprise Winick
if that cartoon created pro-
test. "Artists up the ante," he
says. "It's OK to take risks."
Ever since Winick can
remember he's been drawing.
"I love it," he says. His early
influences involve the Gar-
field and Bloom County car-
toons. He considers Bernard
Kliban to be a significant
mentor. Kliban is known for
his cartooning books and
work in Playboy magazine.
"Kliban had a big effect on
me in that I learned from him
that it's sometimes OK to get
nasty or make an obscure
point," he says.
Winick discusses cartoon-
ing with an easy familiarity.
He understands that humor
and anger are often strange-
ly aligned. Sometimes, as

