But in this comic strip, Snoopy, in a rare moment of self-doubt, mirrors his own, Charlie Brown. Completely misunderstanding the point of something, he goes straight to what he lacks.

Gawboy’s comic strip, “Wanigan,” set on a fictional reservation in northern Minnesota, was published in The Ely Miner from 1978-1980. The Duluth News Tribune gave him his first artistic ...