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Friday December 1, 2017

Wryter's block

Frank Pauer, the University of Dayton's gifted cartoonist, is back at the drawing board with a series of new cartoons created just for the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop audience.

He's the editor and designer for the National Cartoonists Society Magazine and the University of Dayton Magazine, where he has worked for nearly 30 years. We'll be posting his periodic cartoons here and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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