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title: "First conventional, then avant-garde: Cliff Sterrett"
date: 2016-07-26
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/schirn-comic-cliff-sterret-polly-context-en/"
description: "Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett sketched the life of the Perkins family for 40 years and became a role model for later generations of cartoonists."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Header_Comic_Cliff_Sterrett_Polly.jpg"
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# First conventional, then avant-garde: Cliff Sterrett