The cartoons and images that appear on this site have been collected from various sources. Some have been taken from other peoples' websites. Some have been sent to us by other people. Some we did ourselves. There is only one thing that we know for certain, and that is the ones we did ourselves, we own the copyright for. We are therefore free to use these as we please.

But what about the others? Where we have taken cartoons or images from other peoples' sites, we have always contacted them and asked for permission to use it. If we do not get their permission, we don't use it.

In some cases, the sites were no longer online when we tried to get their permission, so we were not able to contact them. Links to those sites come to this page. We hope that the former webmasters would be pleased that a part of their work lives on in cyberspace. But if they're not, this page shows them how to put a stop to it.

If the cartoon or image is sent to us by a member of the public, we ask them to verify that they do own the copyright and that they give us their permission to use it.

If they found the picture on the web, we ask them for the address of the site so we can contact them directly to ask for permission.

So, on that basis, you would think that everything was alright, wouldn't you? But it isn't is it.

Somebody, somewhere could easily give us permission to use a cartoon or image, which they say they own the copyright for, which in fact, they don't. They can either do this knowingly or without knowing it. In these days when things can be scanned, downloaded, digitally stored and electronically sent, it is easy to lose track of who owns what. So, what can we do about it?

Our policy

We think we have done the best that we can to prevent this site from using protected cartoons and images where permission has not been granted by the copyright holder. But, because of the difficulties tracing the true origin of anything, we may well have something on this site, that someone, somewhere, who owns it, doesn't want us to have.

If this is the case, contact us at howdareyou@fastletters.com and tell us which fastletter you want removed. Also, confirm that you are the owner of the copyright to the cartoon or image contained in it. Faster than a fastletter it will be gone.

At fastletters, we are trying to make people laugh, not upset them.