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Why did readers search for deeper meaning in the adventures of Snoopy and the gang?

Local Publisher Acquires Estherville, Emmetsburg Newspapers By Staff | May 28, 2021 Local Publisher Acquires Estherville, Emmetsburg Newspapers EMMETSBURG — Jerry Wiseman, a longtime newspaper publisher in Iowa, has reached an agreement to purchase the Estherville News and the Emmetsburg Reporter and Democrat from the Ogden Newspapers, the two parties announced Thursday. The sale is set to close June 1. Wiseman, a native of Estherville, currently operates several weeklies in the region. He sa...

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1 In the “Pet Peeves” comic strip collection “More Social Than Distant,” the Peeves family of anthropomorphic dogs grapples with masking, quarantine, and social distancing. – Courtesy/Dave London When Boston-area artist Dave London and I first created the comic strip “Pet Peeves” in 2016, our main goal was to elicit some relatable chuckles — telling a story beyond “family of dogs does funny stuff” wasn’t really on the agenda.  Then we found ourselves in a pandemic. That�...

Diane Otto Watkins wanted to become a professional musician after high school in 1973 but she didn’t see many opportunities available for women. She didn’t have the money for college and she didn’t see any jobs open for female musicians. So she joined the Women’s Army Corps. “My parents told me I had to have a job and medical and dental and a roof over my head and be out of the house,” Watkins said. During her senior year at Cedar Ridge High School in Matawan, New ...

Print article When I was a small boy, I was lucky to spend a lot of time with my grandfather. One of my favorite memories of time spent with him is that of occasionally going with him, very early on a Saturday morning, to his barber shop. I loved that barber shop — dark wood paneling, electric fireplace and a table full of old duck hunting magazines and Beetle Bailey comics. The chairs were generally full of the same old men drinking coffee and discussing politics, their lawns or just life ...

"Mallard Fillmore," meet "Doonesbury." It didn’t take long for the decision by Gannett Co. to drop the conservative comic strip "Mallard Fillmore" from its newspapers to be decried by conservative websites as just one more example of “cancel culture.” “Conservative Mallard Fillmore cartoon canceled by leftists,” said the Independent Sentinel. The Red Alert declared, “Cancel culture has claimed another conservative scalp." And then there was the tweet by Bruce Tinsley, the cartoo...

The notion that there’s a liberal wave of intolerance badly misreads history. This nation has seen decades of backlash against provocative views.

Pam Sander The Fayetteville Observer was a big winner in our recent Sunday comics project.   We were tasked with creating a new section that consolidated 11 Gannett newspapers throughout the Carolinas to support efficiencies in print production.  As a result of the nearly 90,000 votes cast on 13,000 ballots, this newspaper adds six new comic strips, while losing just one, Peanuts, which years ago stopped producing new strips.   Because of their overwhelming popularity, these Top...