Hitting a new low in my TV viewing: watching an Alaskan rep low-key rant about "Chinese Communist fish" (do they carry little red books?) as opposed to the glories of "all-American Alaskan freedom fish" (are they colored red white & blue?).

Edward Yang and Christopher Doyle on the set of their mutual debut THAT DAY ON THE BEACH. From the article on Chinese cinema by Tony Rayns in the Winter 1984/1985 SIGHT & SOUND.

This is how you start a manga: with government officials chasing penguins.
(from Muteki no Mirai Daisakusen vol. 1 by Fuyuko Kurosaki)