So I’m noticing a big bump in my web sit hits suddenly…and I’m thinking to myself that something I wrote, or some cartoon I posted, must be a big hit out there. My ego begins to soar upwards. My public loves me…!

Ha! I dig into my logs and what I see is that one of my cartoons is getting caught up in a sudden interest in searching for cartoons about the Holocaust. Here’s the search string that’s generating so much traffic around here lately:

holocaust cartoon

That’s it. Swear to god that’s it. And sure enough, this cartoon of mine is appearing right on the first page of google image results:

It’s about right wing nutcase Minnesota State Representative Arlon Lindner, who in 2003 introduced a bill to eliminate penalties for discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and to remove offical recognition of homosexuals as victims of the holocaust. In defending his bill said among other things that it would save America from becoming “another African continent.” Previously, he’d compared same sex marriage, a’la Pennsylvania wingnut Rick Santorum, to someone wanting to marry their dog.

I think I know what’s going on. This is about the Moslem world riots over twelve Danish cartoons satirizing the prophet Mohammed. People are searching for equivalent cartoons satirizing the Holocaust, either to prove that Moslems have done the same in their own newspapers, or for something to wave back in the face of western liberal society. To both parties: welcome to my little gallery. Perhaps you hadn’t heard about the pink triangles.