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The Stripper's Guide blog discusses the history of the American newspaper comic strip.
In the oughts, before they ponied up for a proper colour comics section, the Sunday Minneapolis Journal had a kids' section with colour cover. That cover often featured comic strips, or at least comic drawings, produced by the Journal 's art bullpenners.
The best cartoonist at the Journal was Charles L. "Bart" Bartholomew, who produced their front page editorial cartoons. Despite his lofty position at the Journal , Bart seemed to relish producing some of the kid series (see The Shanghai Twins , for instance). But today's obscurity, Billy Brash the Boy Hero , is not among them -- it was produced by Fred Bartholomew, who had a style that somewhat resembled that of Charles, though of an order or two less polished. One might naturally assume they were related (
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