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Passed on to me, this 2007 Phil Selby cartoon:

(#1)

A take-off on door-to-door evangelizing, by (in particular) Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons, using the pun Jesus – cheeses to move things to the world of mice, who are famously fond of cheese.

Selby has appeared on this blog once before, with a penguin cartoon (#9 in “Penguins and tuxedos”). He posts on his blog under the name “the rut”, but the blog supplies no information about him personally. Here’s another Selby cartoon of linguistic interest:

(#2)

A graffiti artist with concern about legibility and punctuation, plus a foul mouth.

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