Japanese Robert Parker is... a cartoon character

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/wine/article4727390.ece

from the Times Online: "The sales records of Japan's largest wine merchants have been smashed because, in a single frame of comic, the hero has uttered a dreamy sigh over a 2006 New Zealand Riesling or closed his eyes in appreciation of a Saint-Aubin Premier Cru."