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In our area, we get parts of the Sunday newspaper on Saturday and one of
those parts is the comic pages. In tomorrow's (Sunday's) "Family Circus" is a
map. There have been other maps in that strip in the past. Well, I would
consider them maps. It is possible that tomorrow (Sunday) this strip might
appear on the website www.arcamax.com for viewing. The comic synidcates very
jealously protect copyright as they see it so it may not be possible to pass
such things around.
Many comic strips have had maps over the years, though such things may be
more the subject area of maps in popular culture than the history of
cartography. I have seen them in "L'il Abner" (though often more views), "The
Phantom," "Superman" (location of Metropolis), "Flash Gordon," "Buck Rogers,"
and so on.
<amazon.com> is selling a variety of wine maps & atlases. Again, these may
be more appropriate to the field of popular culture, particularly maps on wine
labels, but viticultural cartography does have a historic component reaching
back to vineyards depicted on medieval estate maps.
JBP
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