PI's 45th ANNIVERSARY -- The Lighter Side

The cycle is coming around again, in electronic form, as free access to objectionable material for minors is raising ethical, moral and free speech questions.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DEPT.: Or how I ripped off Charles Schultz and lived to tell about it. The classified section of PI routinely featured knockoffs of nationally syndicated comic strips under reworked names, such as "Printnuts," with the lead character named Charlie Blow. We won't even talk about "Bagwood Bumstead, the Saga of a Printing Salesman." More original single-panel works, penned by Mel Millar, added a certain charm to the books.