Iris Red, Iris Dead

THE CASE OF THE MISSING COMIC STRIP
Some years ago I ran across a one-panel comic in a magazine (The
New Yorker?). I cut it out and saved it. But now I can't locate it. It was
especially appropriate as a preface to this story. The drawing was of
a group of editors seated around a conference table at a publishing
company. One of them, manuscript in hand, says, "This book has
everything! Love, lust, sex, murder, and cats!"
So be it.
And so, in the absence of the missing comic. I offer...
IRIS RED, IRIS DEAD