From the How Did I Miss This?  Dept:

Peter Steiner's now famous drawing "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" appeared in the July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker.  A few years later it inspired Alan David Perkins to write the play, Nobody Knows I'm a Dog.  For more on Mr. Perkins and the play: www.alandavidperkins.com/nkiad/ 

From the blog The Beat (the Publishers Weekly news blog of Comics Culture), January 4, 2010, "The Beat's Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 Edition - Part One"  a "...poll from every region of the comics industry..."( with Shannon Wheeler content):pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2010/01/04/the-beats-annual-year-end-survey-2010-edition-part-one/