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JHB

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11. It's not censorship, it's formatting

Reply to RedArkGuy (Reply #10)

Sun Mar 6, 2022, 05:26 PM

Mar 2022

Different papers budget different amounts of page space for the Sunday comics. It's pretty routine for cartoonists to write the first two panels so that they're "disposable" for when the paper uses the more compact version where they're cut out.

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