This year our crack team of literary detectives, comic-strip connoisseurs and imaginary reporters need your help.

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Mr Lichtenstein's comic-strip take-offs and Warhol's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles became some of the defining images of the 1960s.

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Employees at GDF-Suez, a utility, stuck thousands of them to the windows of its HQ near Paris to represent Tintin, a comic-strip hero.

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The recording's overall mood, recalling the manic days of the 1960s, is something like a hyperactive Beatles album, an impression heightened by liner notes with a comic-strip layout and larky photographs.

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But alas, for all the colour and comic-strip fun of modern Latin textbooks, there is no way to the literature that does not go via 14 the horrible wild places where ablatives and gerunds live.

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"We call it a Dick Tracy watch, " said Carl Taussig, director of information surfaces at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in a reference to the comic-strip detective whose high-tech wristwatch doubled as a two-way radio.

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Superman stories have proliferated in every medium, beginning with his two extremely long-running comic-book titles and a newspaper comic strip that launched in 1938-39.

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But William Randolph Hearst III has also inherited some of his Grandfather's literary genes.(Despite the Yellow Journalist tag, Hearst the First was undeniably a heckuva writer.) Under Will Hearst's stewardship, the Examiner enjoyed a reputation for fine, punchy writing and he even wrote the forward to a book about a 19th-century comic strip called Hogan ' s Alley.

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Studying word "clusters"helps determine whether a search term like "Blondie" means the comic strip or the punk-pop band from the 1980s.

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For a week Zonker, the comic strip's aging soul-at-large, lamented the bust on Peron's club and went desperately in search of alternative sources for the patients it left stranded.

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In it the Martians really are little green men who quack like ducks and sport craniums that are a cross between a skull and the Mekon of Mekonta arch-villain of the old Dan Dare comic strip.

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Floor-to-ceiling (a very high ceiling, too) windows frame the Strip, receding into the distance like a neon-lit comic book .

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