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... that Sergio Aragonés is the only cartoonist to have won National Cartoonists Society awards in six different categories?

... that Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters The Smurfs first appeared in the Belgian comic Johan and Peewit in 1958?

... that Stephen Duffy, the first vocalist of Duran Duran, played in the band Tin Tin, named after The Adventures of Tintin?

... that Patrick McDonnell, author of Mutts, is a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States?

... that Astro Boy, the fictional hero of the first real anime, obtained special citizenship from the Japanese city Niiza on April 7, 2003, his birthday in the comic?