Political news today: “Dilbert” cartoonist and famously reasonable man Scott Adams has made his presidential endorsement.

Artist Todd White is famous for designing characters who live in a pineapple under the sea. But did he also design an elaborate kidnap and art theft caper in Huntington Beach? Gallerist Margaret Howell has filed a $7.5 million lawsuit accusing "agents of Mr. White" of imprisoning and assaulting her for several hours, stealing $1 million in artwork, forcing her into "reciting a rehearsed and scripted 'consent' into a voice recorder," and then defaming her to associates.

The Washington Post pulled the October 3rd Non Sequitur cartoon from its paper. Because it referenced Muhammad. And the Washington Post's job is to censor its content in accordance with the demands of a small band of violent religious lunatics.

Molly Norris, the Seattle cartoonist whose joking suggestion for an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" earned her a fatwa from religious extremists, has been forced into hiding, for her own safety.

Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris created "Everybody Draw Mohammed" day earlier this year as a humorous way to stand up for free speech. Didn't go over so well. Live and learn. Now, Al Qaeda wants her dead for it. Unacceptable.

Bernard Schoenbaum, a cartoonist for The New Yorker for nearly a quarter-century, died this month at the age of 89. His cartoons are described as targeting "upper middle-class sophisticates"; ironically, he lived in Queens. R.I.P., sir. [NYT]