Around the corner, competitor Manneken Frites has merged the two local icons in a cartoon fry relieving himself.

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Right up to about 10 o'clock on election night the local press treated him like a cartoon character.

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The bank produces cartoon books explaining the rudiments of saving and investment in 11 local languages, and hands them out in schools and post offices.

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After placing his first cartoon (about a man who broke out of jail for the seventh time) in a local Swiss newspaper at the age of 20, he worked his way to America, where he was employed first by the New York Times as an illustrator, then by Newsweek, which hired him to write a comic strip.

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