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- ↑ "Bogor Comic Strips Gallery". Tony's Trading. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ↑ Bigelow, Deborah (15 Sep 2007). "Self-Help". Library Journal. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
