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  Bloom County

  Bloom County was an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where...
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  Pogo

  Pogo was the title and central character of a long-running (1948-1975) daily comic strip created by Walt Kelly. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp of the southeastern United States, the strip often engaged in social and political satire through the adventures of its anthropomorphic funny animal characters...
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  Between Friends

  Between Friends is an internationally syndicated comic strip written by Canadian Sandra Bell-Lundy. The comic focuses on three middle-aged professional women and the problems that they face in their lives. Initially Maeve, Susan, and Kimberly were all childless, but Susan and Kimberly are now...
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  Prickly City

  Prickly City is a daily comic strip drawn by Scott Stantis, the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News, and distributed through Universal Press Syndicate. The cartoon follows the adventures of Carmen, a young Hispanic girl in pigtails, and a coyote pup named Winslow. The strip is frequently...
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  Li'l Abner

  Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip appearing in many newspapers in the United States and Canada, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909-1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through...
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  Opus

  Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of circa five years from 2003 to 2008. It was Breathed's fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland. Set in Bloom County, the strip documented the adventures of Breathed's popular character Opus the...
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  Outland

  Outland was a Sunday-only comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. It was a spin-off of Breathed's strip Bloom County, featuring many of the same characters. On September 3, 1989, a month after retiring Bloom County, Breathed began his second syndicated strip...
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  Tom the Dancing Bug

  Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling which presents critical commentary on modern life, current events, and conventional wisdom and clichés. (There are no bugs or dancing involved and there are no characters named Tom.) The strip is carried in both mainstream and ...

• Candorville

  Candorville is a syndicated newspaper comic strip written and illustrated by Darrin Bell, a former editorial cartoonist, and the first African-American cartoonist to have two different comic strips in syndication concurrently. Candorville was launched in September 2003 by the Washington Post...

• Stone Soup

  Stone Soup, named for the stone soup fable, is an internationally syndicated American comic strip written and illustrated by Jan Eliot. The comic strip, set in Eugene, Oregon, began as a weekly in 1990. The syndicated daily strip debuted in November 1995. The Stone family features a family headed...