Cigar my ass. That was an exploding stogie, a real Tijuana surprise.

You, of all people, didn't drag us all into that Libertarian political blog, (of all blogs), to read that article, (of all articles), just to do a little innocent graphic novel litcrit. There's a definite ideological message embedded there, about as subtle as a fart in a Fiat.

If you actually did that without realizing you were doing it, you're a lot further gone than I thought. But the Young McDuck panel and the inspiring, heart-warming entrepreneurial sentiment you added after clinches it. I guess Ariel Dorfmann was right after all; even the funny papers are fully exploited as a means of politico-cultural indoctrination.

As for why so many cartoonists are Jewish...? Well, the Christians in the middle ages wouldn't let them own land, they had to earn a living somehow. A lot of them went into stand-up, too.