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Your support makes all the difference.THE FELICITOUS combination of form and funny that makes for a good cartoon is not easily come by. Drawing skill is hard to acquire; sense of humour easy to lose. Then there is the vital enchantment factor, a slippery fish (if it is a fish, which it isn't). Cartoonists can spend days wrestling an idea down to its apparently effortless essence.
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