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Today’s cartoon, by Sarah Kempa:

A tick, wearing tiny cowboy boots and brandishing a tiny gun, enters a country-and-Western bar; five patrons look on in horror. A heading reads “Lone-Star Sheriff Tick Comes to Town.”

“I’m here to ruin your summer.”

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