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anti-German sentiments. It changed back to its original name and contents in 1920. He continued to write and draw the strip until his death in 1949, when it was taken over by
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has been praised as "a particularly brilliant job... true to the spirit of the original, and yet stylistically his own."
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physician who had migrated to the United States. His mother was
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745:American comic strip cartoonists
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212:after Knerr left these strips.)
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