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From: sherman@oak.math.ucla.edu (The Ahkond of Swat)
Subject: Re: Mass sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 23:26:27 GMT

In article <n8742883.702685601@gonzo> n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson) writes:
>
>	Not only is Beetle Bailey sexist, but the addition of the
>japanese soldier Yo (I forget his rank) protrays the american
>stereotype of a japanese person: Hardworking to a fault, comically
>loyal to superior officers, zero imagination, and following rules to a
>literal extreme-- just like all good little japanese workers act,
>right?

It bothered me, too; Cpl. Yo's characterization is way over the line.
In retrospect, when Lt. Flap was new, there was a some stereotyping 
there but it was mostly restricted to Flap's outrageously baroque
off-duty clothes.  It didn't extend to his day-to-day behavior.  But
Cpl. Yo is offensive (to me, anyway).  

It's sad, too.  I used to love the reprint books of "Beetle" strips; my
favorites were the ones where General Halftrack would walk in on some
weird situation (Beetle applying liniment to Sarge's back with a mop,
or Sarge sitting with a flowerpot on his head waiting for Beetle to do
a William Tell from the next room) and think "Now what?".

--
 Bill Sherman     S^1 `--> S^(2n+1) -->> CP^n      sherman@math.ucla.edu
  The loudest mouth will hail the newfound way / To be King for a Day.
       - XTC, _Oranges and Lemons_, "King for a Day" (A. Partridge)
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:55:31 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Apr7.145921.18163@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen C. Miller) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr7.184259.6196@acsu.buffalo.edu> v121r529@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott A Elwood) writes:
>>>Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
>>>start some arguments... 8)
>>>
>>>					A big fan,
>>>					Scott Elwood   
>>
>>
>No its not.  It's the worst.  Nyah Nyah.
>
>Now we are having an argument!

No, we're not.  It's just a contradiction (with apologies to Monty Python)
From: gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C & H number one!?
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:33:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Apr9.183357.21089
Distribution: rec
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:

>In article <1992Apr8.171631.4531@techbook.com> gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) writes:
>>
>>Doonesbury is rarely funny, although I love to see Trudeau zing Geo
>>Bush, etc.  

>Judging _Doonesbury_ by the strips from the recent past (say 5 to 10 years)
>is rather like judging Ingrid Bergman's beauty from the movie "Cactus Flower".
>You missed the best, by many years.

>For a strip that peaked back when BD met Phred, _DB_ is hanging on pretty
>well, I'd say.
>     dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu       | Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sound
Somewhere around the house I have Doonesbury books going back to
Trudeau's days at Yale, so at least _I'm_ not judging the strip entirely
on the basis of the last 5-10 years.  But, you know, a comic strip ought
to at least stay as good or even get better; the artists usually learn
to draw better (well, Trudeau has improved somewhat).  Consider people
like Walt Kelly or even Al Capp.

How else are we to judge a strip than by each day?

--Jeff Frane

-- 
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                                    --Thomas Jefferson
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From: yarnot@csusac.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: Re: New Zealand Comic Strip
Organization: Moi?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 02:31:16 GMT

In article <alberti.702850994@ux.acs.umn.edu> alberti@ux.acs.umn.edu (Timothy Fay) writes:
>
>
>You can get the collections (including the "Weekenders," i.e., Sunday
>Strips) at Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis.  I know they have up to about
>volume 15 or 16 of the collected strips, maybe even 17 by now...
>
I want it, I want it!!!  (And yes, I'm from Wyoming, too...)
>
>I've known about Footrot Flats since about 1984, or so, and I think it
>is one of the best comic strips of all time (I've also seen the
>animated feature), and "Dog" is one of the greatest characters (I have
>a "Dog" cloisonne pin :)).
>
On a similar topic, I have a couple of collected GILES books.  The family
is somewhat reminiscent of the Addams clan, though in many respects worse.
I want more.  Is Giles still doing his very weird thing (in the UK)?

-- 
---Jan Yarnot, net.grandma.---    How many graduate students does it take to
                                     change a light bulb?

CSUS depends on my every word.          Only one, but it takes 9 years.
From: vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vernon H Harmon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Date: 11 Apr 92 18:23:40 GMT
	<1992Apr10.193943.741@ll.mit.edu>
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Two bears in the circus riding a bicycle in really stupid costumes. The
one is saying to the other: "'Hey what if it's a trap?!' I said. 'What?!
Way out here in the middle of the woods? Don't be stupid!' you said..."
The look on the other bear's face is sooo choice!

--Vernon.
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Date: 16 Apr 92 01:33:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.8jzj67a
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.

jaguar@netcom.com (Elaine Pang) writes:

> I bought a C&H t-shirt as a gift for someone at a t-shirt store.  It was
> the only design they had, and it was a perfect print of Calvin and
> Hobbes dancing to music (the one where Calvin's wearing pajamas and dark
> glasses and is playing a record at high speed, causing his parents to
> wake up freaked out and wondering)... there was no way that was a
> bootleg! 

Why is there "no way that was a bootleg?"

I can only repeat this so many times: Bill Watterson has not authorized
the sale of ANY Calvin & Hobbes T-shirts.  If you don't think it's a
bootleg, find the syndicate copyright notice and the manufacturer's name
on the shirt and post them here.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

Don't Mess With Texas
(You don't know where it's been)
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From: nyamane@isis.cs.du.edu (Norm Yamane)
Subject: Colour dailies
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 19:46:44 GMT


A while ago (~1.5 years) the Toronto Sun started printing its
dailies in colour.  I remember this because Calvin & Hobbes is
one of my favourites and it was in colour.

Of course, I moved to Ottawa two weeks after this started :-(

My question is:  are there any other newspapers out there that
produce the dailies in colour or is this something that the
features departements of a newspaper must do by themselves??

Norm Yamane
nyamane@nyx.cs.du.edu OR
yamane@nrccsb6.di.nrc.ca
From: djordan@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Danny Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Ernie
Date: 8 Apr 92 06:47:23 GMT
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center


   Anyone else out there a fan of Ernie? I think its a pretty good bit
 of twisted humor, our paper only carries the sunday strips though.
 I would love to read the dailies, what few I have has been real good.
 My favorite character on the strip has to be that piranha!

   -Danny

--
====================================================================
= "Swimming in the main stream   = Danny Jordan
= Is such a lame dream"          = djordan@loligo.cc.fsu.edu
=           --Black Flag         =     ***** Jello in '92! ***** 
=====================================================================
From: v106lr4h@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric T Sasse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Mr. Boffo Books?
Keywords: Mr. Boffo Joe Martin Books
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:18:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <trump.703106581@elaine30.Stanford.EDU>, trump@elaine30.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis) writes...
>ack@coos.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:
>
>>And my favorite Mr. Boffo strip: 
>Personally, I like both "Prehistoric men in battle before throwing was invented"
>and "Worst Defense Award:  I thought he was a pinata".  And the reveiwer's 
>comments on the back of the book (Page after page from front to back--Rolling
>Stone).
> 
   I like: 
  " In the time before there were diseases, you would just be standing around 
and hear TIME'S UP!, and someone nearby would explode." Also in prehistoric era.

                                                        -Eric
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From: chuck@melmac.Harris-ATD.com (Chuck Musciano)
Subject: Gahan Wilson [was The best Far Side cartoons]
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:15:17 GMT
Reply-To: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept, Harris Corp, Melbourne, FL
Keywords: far side gary larson

     This talk of the Far Side had me thinking of my favorite Gahan Wilson
cartoons.  Any other Gahan Wilson fans out there?  Two of my favorites are:

	Shot of a commercial kitchen, floor covered with blood and ground
	meat.  Central in the view is a meat grinder with a arm coming up
	from the feed hoel and gripping the grinder crank.  A nearby police
	officer comments, "It's the most determined suicide I've ever seen."
	
	Chimney sweep, having dislodged a pile of bones along with a red
	suit from a chimney, informs the homeowner that "we've discovered
	what has been clogging your chimney."

-- 

Chuck Musciano				ARPA  : chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com
Harris Corporation 			Usenet: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!chuck
PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912			AT&T  : (407) 727-6131
Melbourne, FL 32902			FAX   : (407) 729-3363

A good newspaper is never good enough,
	but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.		-- Garrison Keillor
From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:50:56 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
Supersedes: <73270@netnews.upenn.edu>
In-reply-to: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)

In article <1992Apr8.004312.1600@cs.sfu.ca>, jamie@cs (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>     Canadian Content regulations for comic strips.

I have heard that the NATIONAL LAMPOON's response to this for magazines
some years back was to start including Canuck jokes and the like, and
they had one of their comic strip artists in the back come up with the
series about the totally brainless mountie.  They had a special Canada
issue even.  I still remember:

	What's the capital of Canada?
		American.
	What's the automotive capitol of Canada?
		Detroit.
	What do you get when you cross a Canadian with a beaver?
		A beaver that speaks a little French.
	What do you get when you cross a Canadian with an American?
		An American.
	What do you get when you cross a Canadian?
		Righteous indignation.

Be careful about what you wish for....

Speaking of that brainless mountie: that artist does two strips--the
other one is about a loonie father that was no doubt the inspiration
for the Church of the Subgenius.  Has he--or the rest of their Funny
Pages--ever been collected?
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Fusco Brothers!
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:46:57 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
In-reply-to: gt1293c@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 8 Apr 92 04:35:20 GMT

gt1293c@prism.gatech.EDU (W. Scott Radeker, IV) writes:
|I can't believe no one else likes the Fusco Brothers!  It's great.

I truly hate this strip.  And I mean this honestly.  I have often had
to drink water after reading it.  Now, I think it simply boils down to
this:  I don't get it at all.

Surely, it's just some private joke that I'm not in on...?

Now FC, on the other hand, is just pure evil (only less evil than
MiniVans with wood panelling).

--
Peace.
     "The US has a vital interest in that area of the country."
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.
                           ------
Don't just adopt opinions |  \/  | I am Charles Isbell, Homeboy from hell,
      develop them.       |  /\  | living axiom and anonymous absolute ruler
                           ------  of the cosmos.  

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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Milk & Cheese - Dairy products gone BAD!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:04:37 GMT

pfile@jaywalk.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile) writes:


>I recently discovered this really sick underground strip when someone
>posted some tiff files to the net. As though led by god, when I visited
>UW-Madison a few days ago, I found some back issues of their satire paper,
>_The_Onion_, and in a few of these, in the back, were some of the funniest
>cartoons I have ever seen, including Milk & Cheese.

>Does anyone know where this comic originates? It doesnt seem to be a
>wisconsin local phenomenon, although with a title like that it wouldnt
>boggle the mind to find that it is written at Wisconsin.

>I'd like to get my hands on more of this sick comic. Thanks for any info.

Milk and Cheese...lords of the universe.  They have two books out so far,
which should be available at your local comic store.

Hapless victim: "I have NO money!"
Milk & Cheese: "Then we take your teeth."


                                  --Steve "HATE YOU!" Stelter
                                    sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Peanuts baseball team
Summary: worst team of all time.
Keywords: peanuts, baseball
Date: 11 Apr 92 05:04:06 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL

Who were all the members of Charlie Brown's baseball team?  I know
they consistently have had

SP Charlie Brown (apx 0-600 lifetime)
RP Linus         (at least 5-0 lifetime)
C  Schroeder
SS Snoopy  (One short of Babe Ruth's HR record)
RF Lucy

Others I know played, but I'm not sure of the position include

Patty (LF?)
Violet (CF?)
Linus (1B/2B)
Shermy (3B?)
555 (3B?)
Freida (LF?)
Rerun (?)

Can anyone construct a complete lineup and roster?
--
Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Gigabit Study Group 

  "It is considered good to look wise, especially when not 
   overburdened with information" -- J. Golden Kimball
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From: trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: Jes Grew Carriers -- Metaphysical Bunko Squad 
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:41:08 GMT

pschulz@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Paul Schulz) writes:

>What about:
>To men are in a hospital ward, one bandaged head to foot... other talking
>to somebody else...
>caption... "and then Bill said, 'Do you suppose the Bear is dead or just 
>            asleep'"

I thought you were going to describe the one in which two bandaged guys are
in wheelchairs on a lawn at some hospital, and a meteor is about to become
a meteorITE all over them.  One is saying to the other: "You're kidding!
I was struck twice by lightning myself!"
 
Trevor Bauknight         trev@hubcap.clemson.edu    ...gatech!hubcap!trev
 
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From: kbnguyen@descartes.waterloo.edu (Khanh Nguyen)
Subject: Peanuts: Can Snoopy Talk?
Keywords: peanuts
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:41:07 GMT

	A friend and I was discussing the other day about if Snoopy can
talk to others, or when he talks, do others hear?

	Is he like in a world of his own like Calvin (& Hobbes) and has his
own imagination. Because most of the time that I've seen Snoopy talk, 
he has thinking clouds.
	And in the cartoons on TV, he never speaks (or am I wrong?).

	As well, does he talk to Woodstock?


kbnguyen
waterloo, on
-- 
==========================================================================
Khanh Nguyen @ Descartes			Have a Nice Day!!

==========================================================================
From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:32:49 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S

v121r529@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott A Elwood) writes:

>Calvin and Hobbes is by far the best comic strip around.  Just trying to
>start some arguments... 8)

I read a newspaper article about a year ago (I think) that claimed that
the artist who makes C&H (I forget his name) was in hospital with a
serious mental illness. The article further stated that the doctors
had advised the artist to stop making the comic strips since they
were apparently part of the reason for his illness.

Does anybody know more about this?

-- 
Claus Tondering
Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
E-mail: ct@dde.dk
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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:58:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.080727.3479@en.ecn.purdue.edu> smbaker@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Svlad Cjelli) writes:
>a far cry from BC on the funny chart, because 1) it is Sunday only so you
>never get any really good, three month plot lines, and 2) a strip based on
>Ronald Ann just isn't as good as one based on the whole BC crew, even if
>it still has a few of the same characters.  But the plot lines are the big

I think that about sums it up.  Since I don't like either of Ronald
Ann or the cockroach, Outland doesn't grab me.
-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
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From: trump@elaine30.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis)
Subject: Re: Mr. Boffo Books?
Keywords: Mr. Boffo Joe Martin Books
Organization: DSG, Stanford University
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:23:01 GMT

ack@coos.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:

>I have been searching for any Mr. Boffo book in addition to the wonderful
>"Unclear on the Concept"

>ARE THERE ANY????

Not that I know of, unfortunately.

>Also, what else does he write and are books available for them?

He does write "Willy and Ethel", with the same sort of humor as Mr. Boffo but
is about a broke man and wife who are both lazy.  The characters of the main
people don't change every strip as they sometimes do with Mr. Boffo.

I imagine there's a book of this somewhere, as it's been out for a while, but I
really don't know.

>My favorite Mr. Boffo T-Shirt:

>"Never let them see you sweat" -Number 1 on a list of phrases that most
>confuse Sylvester Stallone.

Where did you find a T-shirt?  ANyone know of any in the South Bay, pref. 
Stanford area?

>And my favorite Mr. Boffo strip:

>"Number 5 on the list of things you don't want to hear from your girlfriend
>in a letter: 'Rival motorcycle gangs are vying for my attention'"

Personally, I like both "Prehistoric men in battle before throwing was invented"
and "Worst Defense Award:  I thought he was a pinata".  And the reveiwer's 
comments on the back of the book (Page after page from front to back--Rolling
Stone).

- Mike Lewis
trump@leland.stanford.edu
From: anjyii@athena.mit.edu (anjyii)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Fast Track and Safe Havens
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:06:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr9.000638.2199
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Two of my favorite strips, and I think they're both done by the same person
(the drawings/letterings look the same, and they have the same type
of humor) one takes place at a business, and the other in a day-care
center.  Anyway, they both used to run in the Seattle P-I, and they
stopped Havens.  Did the strip die, or was this the newspaper?  Also,
does anyone know if either strip has any books, or compilations out?
Finally, does either strip run in any newspaper around the Boston 
area...(the comics in the papers here are awful)


						-Angela Batiste
						anjyii@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Date: 12 Apr 92 03:57:41 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ

In article <1992Apr8.080727.3479@en.ecn.purdue.edu> smbaker@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Svlad Cjelli) writes:
>(who knows why...).  But I have one great loyalty the to Most Awesome Of
>All Comic Strips Ever: Bloom County!!!!  This was a Great comic strip (although

Far be it from me to contradict Dirk Gently himself (:-)), but
the best comic that ever was and ever will be is Krazy Kat.

When I first saw Outland I thought BB was bringing back
that put-Dali-to-work surrealism, but it's all about
undershorts, vermin, and sexual rejection of a penguin
with Gerard Depardieu's nose.

Just past KK are the original Pogo, and the golden years of
Li'l Abner (for which you have to read microfilm at the
morgue, since they were the '40s).

				--Blair
				  "They just don't Get It."
				  -Anita Hill
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes 
Summary: More favorites
Organization: Why?
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 21:17:20 GMT

My favorite calvin story:

Remember the series where Calvin duplicates himself and the duplicate
produces duplicates of himself? So it ended up that there are 5 or so
Calvins running around.

-Steve-
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:21:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr8.082041.5986@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, smbaker@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Svlad Cjelli) writes...
>In article <7467@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>]What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?
>]
>]
>]	CAT FUD.
>]
>]	Oh please, oh please.
>]
>]
>]
>Personally, I like the one with the dog Fifi running toward the pet
>door that has been nailed shut.  
> 
>Of course I hone have my FS book with me, but that is the best one
>I can think of right now...
> 

     Too many brilliant ones to name just one, but remember:

     When Dogs Dream   ???

     The one where Larson swears "that dog isn't doing to the car
     what everyone in my office thinks it's doing???"


          ^Hot Damn, That Pie Was Good!^
                     Common Phrases Heard at
                     RR Diner #32.

          ^Scott Gorcey, v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu^
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From: cmag5519@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chris M. Anderson)
Subject: Re: I Go Pogo
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:36:08 GMT

Sternecky's last strip made it seem like he was ousted, to me too.  The
newsletter of the Pogo Fan Club (The Fort Mudge Most) stated that he was
leaving to do other work, if I recall correctly, but it DID seem to be
a rather bitter strip.  Although I miss Kelly the most, I will still
miss Doyle/Sternecky.  At least I have the _Escaped From the Zoo_ book
to read.  Now that was amusing.  Still is, too.
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