Woke up this morning to find myself (in round-shouldered cartoon form, anyway) suddenly on the front page of Salon.com, thanks to the mad genius of Scott Bateman:

(UPDATED: apologies for some weird error that made the animation work fine in every browser except Safari. Fixed. And here’s a permalink to the cartoon itself.)

If you like the cartoon, I hope you’ll enjoy the book.

(Say, my griping about ad-driven media has just been revealed as mid-range hypocrisy.  Still, it won’t be full-on until you see this site running ads from, I dunno, TexacoBurgerKing or whatever, and then running pieces about how the new PetroGriller With Cheese is both yummy and non-toxic.  Then the hypocrisy will be complete.)