Christo two-fer

Here's another in our collection of map-related comics with artist themes. Y'know this post would have been perfectly topical back in 2005 when Christo [and Jeanne-Claude] did [their] installation in New York City's Central Park. However it's fun enough now to see two completely different cartoonists doing two completely different jokes using almost the same exact imagery.  I just wonder why the one has the tied-up part on the North Pole while the other has it on the South Pole.  

Christopher Weyant in The New Yorker (which ran in August of 2004, six months before Christo's Central Park installation)

Mike Peters' Mother Goose & Grimm