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A paternalistic Hearst reigns over a corporate fantasy world that serves as common ground for all of the cartoon characters published in his papers.

J. S. Pughe, cartoon, Puck June 1904; rpt. in Stephen Becker, Comic Art in America: A Social History of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons (Schuster, 1959), 307.