Just in case it’s confusing, this was posted with today’s date because there’s no good way to automatically know the original posting date

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This is perhaps a good example of how I’ll break a mental block (other than getting out my contract and rereading it). I scribbled out this strange little street musician, hoping to get something happening. It started me thinking about mimes, jugglers, and other street performers―and the possibility of other professions moving into the same scene.

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The Far Side and Dennis the Menace used to be side by side in the Dayton Daily News. One day, back in August of 1981, someone “accidentally” switched their captions. What’s most embarrassing about this is how immensely improved both cartoons turned out to be.