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376:, a third attempt by Pastis to get syndicated. In this strip, Pastis based the story on a lawyer named Bob Grossman who screwed up a lawsuit brought by a sausage company and was forced to work at the farm the sausage company owned until he made up the difference. Grossman worked with pigs, one of whom told him he was "screwed" because the farmer was only paying minimum wage.
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duck named Maura, who flew away from him and failed to return for over a year. Guard Duck thought he had lost her forever, as he had never learned how to fly, but one day she returned to him. He resigned his "commission" shortly thereafter and traveled to Paris with Maura, but soon afterward, Maura
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in many strips as the cartoonist of the strip, usually discussing his experiences as a cartoonist or his childhood and background. His characters' attitudes toward him range from indifference to pity to contempt; Rat is particularly hostile toward him. Pastis particularly tends to offend his
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to the crocodiles' schemes, pointing out the various ways in which their plots to eat him are doomed to fail. Zebra's other neighbors include Larry the crocodile's family and a pride of lions. Zebra also owns a pet cat named
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who hates everybody and spends most of his time either drinking and smoking, or torturing people. He is also the main character of Rat's comic strip of the same name. Pastis conceived Danny Donkey as "the
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parables about romance; and a nameless, corrupt congressman. Rat has also drawn comics about a misanthropic, alcoholic donkey named Danny Donkey, who briefly came to life in a 2006 storyline.
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to syndicates. Several expressed interest and three accepted it, but they could not convince their sales staff that it was marketable. Amy Lago, an editor at
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