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breaking up by subskeet. please repost so he gets the message
Mandolyn
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I’m a cliche: childless, liberal, Bay Area, and will happily show you pictures of my cat.
I’m a cliche: childless, liberal, Bay Area, and will happily show you pictures of my cat.
![History
Ziggy, in nameless at his conception, has been visible in some form or another since the mid-1 960s. Greeting card writer Tom Wilson first drew a Ziggy-like character as an elevator operator offering political commentary in editorial cartoons, but no one would syndicate Ziggy eventually appeared in an American Greetings gift book, When You're Not Around (7968)[2] which caught the eye of Kathleen Andrews, a founder of the fledgling startup Universal Press Syndicate, which badly needed a popular comic to keep t afloat. deal was struck, the name was given, and Ziggy was born.[3] The strip began in 15 newspapers in June 1971,[4] and that number eventually grew to over 600 publications. A Sunday strip premiered on April 1, 1973.[5]
In 1987, after years of preparation, the strip was taken over by Tom Wilson's son, Tom Wilson ll.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dsnpbdcgv67n62ztkxejaou/bafkreid2bee2dlldk6mo2vdtwhj67dbslkulizvxjuoncg3k5jrkkjrome)
