If you've opened a newspaper from one of Alaska's major cities, chances are you're familiar with the work of Chad Carpenter, creator of "Tundra" comics. His pot-bellied, large-nosed, hapless cartoon ...

"And now, here's something we hope you'll really like." (The preface that introduced many of the series sketches.) Moose and Squirrel, Boris and Natasha, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody and Sherman and ...