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Newspaper Comics

Three-panel newspaper comic. A soldier lies face down in shallow green swamp water. Panel 1: "Jesus, can we impeach President Bush now? Al Qaeda must be psyched at his response to Katrina—the guy's looking like he couldn't handle the aftermath of a goddamn snowball fight." Panel 2: "Forty-five percent of Americans still trust Bush "to make the right decisions during a domestic crisis." I think I'll float over and… Peanuts comic panel: Lucy sits holding a football and says in a speech bubble, "If you cut taxes on the rich, they'll invest that money and create jobs for everyone!" Charlie Brown stands nearby, looking at her. Caption: "Apologies + appreciation to Schulz". Black-and-white pen-and-ink cartoon of a living room covered in dense plaid, checkerboard and crosshatch patterns. A bespectacled man in a plaid shirt sits and points sternly at a boy who stands with his head bowed. A woman in a polka-dot skirt looks on with a hand on her hip. A crumpled paper with a spiral lies on the floor. There is no text. Comic panel on a tan background. A small figure in a space helmet and a big gray rocket-shaped jetpack blasts off in a cloud of black smoke, pointing and saying in a speech bubble: "YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK." An arrow labels the figure "SCIENCE FICTION." Below, three drawn figures, one with a pipe, one bald with round glasses, one with a bun, say "TUT TUT." An arrow labels them "PROPER LITERATURE." Six-panel Doonesbury comic by GB Trudeau. A man in glasses on a bed asks a translator: "Tell me, honey--since you're the only translator in China who can still understand the Chairman, how faithfully do you actually carry out his wishes?" She replies: "Well, sir, he changes his mind a lot, and although his word is absolute law, I have to account for that. For instance, last Monday, he told me to have the Great Wall…