It figures– the one day that I don't ask the Editor-in-Chief for approval of my strip's content before I ink it, she (she being EIC Jenn Cudmore) tells me that the reference to Iranians' tendency towards profuse body hair is probably going to get the paper in trouble.
I didn't feel like re-drawing everything, so I decided that one day I'd just put the strip on the Internet. Two years later, that dream has come to pass.
In retrospect, I should have made reference to Armenians– who are also prone to thick hair on the chin and elsewhere (case in point: Google a picture of beloved children's entertainer Raffi Cavoukian, or actor Ken Davitian, aka Borat's sidekick Azamat Bagatov). Since they've been a Christian country since the 4th century AD, this also wouldn't expose me to accusations of ‘Islamophobia’. Ah well– hindsight is 20/20.
