Editorial cartoonists share their hate mail

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SAN ANTONIO - You would think opening a letter that reads, "Ann Coulter has more patriotic blood in one of her used tampons then you have in your whole body," might not be all that inspiring.

But to most of the editorial cartoonists working today, it's precisely the sort-of thing that eggs them on and encourages them to continue.

Rex Babin's cartoon on Mississippi (click to enlarge)...Rex Babin's cartoon on Mississippi (click to enlarge)...Babin's cartoon 'redrawn' by one of his readers (click to enlarge).Babin's cartoon 'redrawn' by one of his readers (click to enlarge).A reader took a time to draw his own cartoon about Rex Babin (click to enlarge).A reader took a time to draw his own cartoon about Rex Babin (click to enlarge).Cartoonist presented some of their favorite hate mail and reader response stories as part of a panel during this years American Association of Editorial Cartoonists' (AAEC) Annual Convention.

Rex Babin, the editorial cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee, started things off with a slideshow of the different types of responses his cartoons gathered, including readers rubbing their criticisms on to his printed cartoons with their feces and mailing it back to the newspaper.

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