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My having been an avid reader of the funny papers for as long as I can remember, beginning with the Bakersfield Californian during childhood back in the 30s I seemed to have intuitively realized the comics were the intellectual part of newspapers. Even as I grew older “Snuffy Smith” and “Li’l Abner” made more sense than most of what I would find in the rest of the paper. Others would come along, and apart from the just plain fun of some of these when it came to social comment I appreciated some of the newcomers like Trudeau with “Doonesbury,” and I really loved Breathed’s “Bloom County” from the beginning. In addition to being a real hoot, the kind of imagination that went into making a penguin the focus of the storyline was something I could admire. The recent flap over some newspapers refusing to print “Opus” because some mild fun was poked at Islam is, to me, not only most regrettable, but quite literally...
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