Word: wee
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...Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father, to create new strips like Wee Pals and Luther, in which blacks were the main characters...
When racial concerns fell out of favor during the 1980s, black faces faded from the funny pages as well. Wee Pals, which once appeared in 109 papers, is now carried in fewer than 50; Luther ended an 18-year run in 1986. In the '90s, however, a growing number of editors at major urban dailies have begun to look at black comics as a way to attract new readers in a time of changing demographics and declining readership. "My community happens to be largely black, and we know young readers turn to the comic pages," says Marty Claus, an editor...
...than ever about how that experience is portrayed. Nervous editors often urge artists to do stories that avoid prickly issues. "They really don't want a black strip. They want a Peanuts in Coppertone," gripes old- timer Turner, who says he has softened the attitudes of some of his Wee Pals characters to appease the powers that...
Council meetings stretch into the wee hours, as the councillors exercise their rhetorical skills and mastery of ceremony for the benefit of cable TV viewers...
Approximately 25 members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) marched through the Yard in the wee hours of Sunday morning to usher out Daylight Savings Time...