"The more things change, the more they stay the same..."
Not many people know this, but my great grandfather Aloysius "Gorilla" Koford, was also a cartoonist (see the video evidence here). From 1912-1913 he produced a comic strip which was featured in 17 newspapers, including the Philadephia Star-Democrat, the Tampa Telegraph, and the Santa Fe Good-Newser.
Minor point of interest?
The current gamer's craze of "pw3nd" ( an acronym for "owned" ) may have older origins in "pawned...
