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- ↑ Seattle Post-Intelligencer article "Energetic Friesen will leave a lasting comic impression"
- ↑ "Commedus Interruptus". Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ↑ Comics Unleashed
- ↑ Best of Comics Unleashed
- ↑ KLOS Five O-Clock Funnies Archived March 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine