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I would say if anything is weighing down poor Hiram Hefty it would be the seemingly never-ending supply of indignities heaped upon him! Welcome to Nobody Loves A Fat Man, a strip that may be over 100 years old, but seems plenty fresh today in the ways it finds to continually punish its main character for the unpardonable sin of being a little overweight. I have not been able to dig up anything else from this Weston, but he or she certainly shows some promise here.

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An interesting series of “insights” from a century ago by Winnie Lee with illustrations from E.R. Higgins. Or as one paper hyperbolically put it: a series of the most penetrating, the most brilliant contributions yet made to the subject of ‘woman’s nature’. See the Higgins archive for even more.

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Kitty Khaki is a weird one in the sense that I’ve cobbled these from a number of papers…Kitty just never seemed to find a home for more than a few episodes. I checked American Newspaper Comics and Mr. Holtz appears to have had the same issue investigating this one. I’ve managed to unearth sixteen of them, though I should warn you one is in such poor shape it is barely readable. The creator is clearly named Hughes, though that’s about all I can tell you.