I had a feeling this week's cartoon might trigger a response from some facial hair-advantaged readers. Sure enough, longtime reader Nick sends this rather amusingly doctored picture of himself:

I will say that Nick's beard is not quite the variety I was poking fun at in the cartoon; to me, his crop of facial hair says "friendly brewmaster" as opposed to "insouciantly disheveled Beard-as-Fashion-Statement."
Nick happens to be an animator; you can watch one of his short movies
here.
UPDATE: A New Yorker writes in:
Oh...my...dear....lord!!
I live in the East Village and frequent "hip" parts of Brooklyn like Williamsburg and Bushwick (aka "East Williamsburg" for real estate types), and if there is any justice in this world, your brilliant cartoon should act as a magical neutron bomb and eliminate masses of the population of both places.
God bless you, Ms. Sorensen.
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