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A cartoon extravaganza: What if everyone skipped the Oscars?

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Hollywood’s glamorous Smith couple — Will and Jada — made it known early on that they would be absent from the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony because not a single non-white actor had gotten a nomination.

In subsequent days, a lively and important debate has ensued about the lack of diversity in the movie industry.

This raises the question: What if they gave Oscars and nobody came?

There are plenty of reasons, both serious and silly, that film industry folks might choose not to show up. I explored several of those reasons in a full page of cartoons from which I plucked the image above. To see the complete “Horsey On Hollywood” extravaganza click right here.

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