1.0 link 194310 <![CDATA[Comics: Coincidence or Conspiracy?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/comics-coincidence-or-con_b_194310.html Gather 'round, kiddies, Uncle Paul is going to read the funny papers for you. Come see how the economic disaster is even trickling its way down not only to syndicated comic strips but also to the comic strip characters themselves.

In Candorville by Darrin Bell, a mouselike creature borrowed from another strip, Pearls Before Swine, tells Candorville's protagonist, an easygoing African-American man, "I'm here [in Washington] to testify in Congress comic strip industry bailout hearing, I shall be showered with cash."...

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