I know that a pro-Tibet demo would be de rigueur, but I haven't yet found an original angle that works in the framework of the strip. It's almost too trendy to extinguish Olympic flames. Weltschmerz tries to tread where others do not.
In that ahead-of-the-curve spirit, I did a few China-related cartoons last year. The following is an exchange from One Man's Tragedy:
Frank: The Chinese word for crisis is opportunity.
Horst: The Chinese word for terrorist is Dalai Lama. The Chinese word for toxic is toy. I boycott Chinese words.
And the fact that iPods are manufactured in what amount to slave labour camps, glancingly mentioned in the cartoon above, is dealt with at a little more length in Pod People.
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