Yep. That is my motivation for drawing the comic. The reindeer ran out of lichen. When I drew the comic, I thought that fossil fuels (especially oil) are humanity's equivalent resource that we are consuming.

I wrote a blog post where I described the ecology behind the St Matthew Island scenario. It is unclear whether they totally "bred themselves to death", or whether there was a particularly bitter

Thanks. As I mentioned in my introductory post the front pages of all of my comics are homages to other works. But the Tintin one of St Matthew Island is the one that tends to get recognised the most.

Thanks! What kind of cartoons do they do?