Dear Nick:

    You are not the first person attributing to me the Tin Tin panel-cartoon rip-off with whatever its provocative, underlying message.  To you and the others who have come up with the same thought, my categorical response is that I have never in my 50-plus professional career as a working artist done any kind of panel cartoon, including this one.  Period.  Nor have I ever been afflicted with any interest at all in sangha politics, as anyone who is (or who knows me) will readily attest.  Look elsewhere for your perp,  Bill.