Dan Bloom's faithfully written to me again to update me with this tidbit of information:

American cartoonist Bill Griffith is the creator of a syndicated comic strip titled ?Zippy? that appears in over 500 newspapers worldwide, including Japan and Taiwan.

Word has it that Mr. Griffith, once based in San Francisco in the world of underground comics and now living and working in Connecticut, found this website in Japanese with pictures of some very unique fruit-shaped municipal bus stops in Ishaya City.

He was especially taken with the watermelon-shaped bus stop, according to rumors in the Internet underground — the Undernet? the Interground? — and plans to use the image in one of his upcoming strips.

Editor?s Note: The photograph was identified on BoingBoing on July 28 as being shot in Taiwan, in a post titled —Roadside Taiwan,? based on information provided by JAPUNDIT?s Danny Bloom. However, a Taiwanese surfer in Taipei with keen eyesight noticed that the bench in front of the bus stop has Japanese characters on it and Dan Bloom now has egg on his face!

Reprinted across the enet from?the source?at Japundit with gracious permission of Dan himself. One error still remains: Dan actually has WATERMELON on his face! Muhahaha… I jest, I jest. All meant in good fun.