Kim Deitch, Raw Magazine, Volume Two, Issue One.  1989. https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2020/11/felix-and-otto-and-waldo-and-kim-and-ted.html   Communists and talking animals are just degenerate.

 But at my back I always hear  Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;  And yonder all before us lie  Deserts of vast eternity.  Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress    The ocean is a desert with it's life underground and a perfect disguise above  I've Been Through The Desert On A Horse With No Name , Dewey Bunnell.