Letter: More room for comics

By Mary Walton | The Public Forum

| Nov. 26, 2019, 2:00 p.m.

| Updated: Nov. 25, 2019, 11:38 p.m.

When you can’t read the text of “Doonesbury” with a magnifying glass, and Sarge and Otto are skinny so they will fit in a side panel, it’s time to give your comic strips a little more room.

Mary Walton, Salt Lake City

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