1) American comic strip 
Maintaining was a comic strip by cartoonist Nate Creekmore. Nate is a two-time winner of the Scripps College Cartoonist of the Year and an Associated Press award for achievement in college cartooning. Nate`s strip first appeared in the newspaper at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Maintaining was later picked up for syndication through Universal....
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