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… and they’ll use the old cartoon artwork for another strip, with fresh text: a new, improved donut. Case in point: today’s (12/30, New Year’s Eve Eve) Zippy strip:

(#1) The big donut by the side of the road in York PA, advertising Maple Donuts, its store, and its coffee shop

But, but: we’ve been here before; #1 is a reworking of  the Zippy strip in my 12/1/17 posting “Maple Donuts, coffee shops, and unapologetic identities”, with the old artwork merely re-colored but with fresh speech balloons:

It starts with a Zippy strip from July 1st, featuring the Maple Donuts shop on Historic Lincoln Highway in York PA (and, incredibly, it will end with singings of the Negro National Anthem; in between, there will be firearms):

(#2) [the 2017 strip, captioned:] Maple Donuts, featured a number of times in Zippy strips

Indeed; my 5/19/20 posting The toroids of York” has two more Zippy strips about Maple Donuts in York.

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