It’s coming up roses,
every blog you watch, red roses…

Daniel Mitsui: The broken spears of the sea; and an introduction to the artist.

The cartoon killed from Killed Cartoons:

…Even “Killed Cartoons” faced its own bout of censorship. An editorial cartoon by Doug Marlette, entitled “What Would Mohammed Drive?” and featuring an Arab man driving a van packed with a nuclear warhead, was removed from the book by the publisher for what Wallis calls “fear of fatwa.”

surprise, surprise (via Journalista; and, I hope obviously, not meant to suggest that the Marlette cartoon is some kind of brilliant incisive hilarious talented sensitive troubled Mr. Ripley, because that’s completely not the point.)