Look for the sliver lining...

The Fantagraphics Blog has a post about Tim Kreider, a cartoonist taking up the Iranian newspaper's challenge for funniest Holocaust-related cartoon. Tim is ill, yo:



From Tim's submission letter:

"To the Editors:

I hesitated to enter your contest because your choice of the Holocaust as a subject seems to reveal more about your own bigotry than about Western taboos. Being offended by Danes and retaliating by insulting the Jews seems suspiciously misdirected--sort of like being attacked by al Qaeda and retaliating by invading Iraq..."

See the rest of the cartoon and read the entry at Fantagraphics Blog.