Several of you. starting with Anthony Tollin, have sent me a link to this article by Cullen Murphy, who is the son of John Cullen Murphy, the artist who did (among other newspaper strips), Big Ben Bolt and after Hal Foster retired, Prince Valiant. The younger Murphy writes of an extraordinary county at an extraordinary time, when countless comic strips were written and drawn there. There is no comparable community today. There's camaraderie at groups like the National Cartoonists Society but it's not the same as when so many talented folks lived ten minutes apart.