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Rebecca Giordano

Comic book panel from Jackie Ormes' "Heartbeats" (1950's).

Not Just the Funnies: Exhibit explores the comic world of Jackie Ormes

May 13, 2016 by David Ochsner

For more than a century comic strips have provided a light-hearted diversion for newspaper readers, although a few were groundbreaking for the insights they offered about society. Peanuts captured Cold War anxieties with the existential musings of chronically depressed Charlie Brown, while the anthropomorphic Pogo and his friends in Okefenokee Swamp provided the era with […]

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