""Syndication's a rough business, Goat, so every few years, cartoonists from the East Coast fight alongside all their characters against all of us West Coast guys and all our characters."" ― Stephan Pastis explains the nature of the conflict to Goat.
The East-Coast West Coast Cartoonists' War was a conflict between cartoonists and characters from the east coast, and cartoonists and characters from the west coast. [1]