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A real woman for the comics pages, Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen is a confident, witty lady juggling the demands of family and career. Gary Delainey writes and Gerry Rasmussen draws, and together this cartooning duo from Alberta, Canada creates Betty, a smart, savvy comic character who is unapologetically ordinary, happy and female. College friends who collaborated on their first comic strip, Bub Slug, in 1976, Delainey and Rasmussen clearly love their work -- cartooning in general and Betty in particular. Delainey calls Betty "a working-class hero whose spirit cannot be broken by the endless series of outrages that make up modern life." Rasmussen says the thrill of cartooning comes from working at something his young son cannot possibly conceive of as work. Betty has a loyal following, best seen in action when readers of The Buffalo News spoke out to get their favorite comic back, after it had been pulled. There were so many calls that the editors returned Betty to the comics within days.
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