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Chip Sansom began to continue The Born Loser when he was 14 years old when his father, the late Art Sansom, first created the strip in 1965. After years of
observing and assisting his father, he assumed that it was his destiny to be a cartoonist to continue what his father had done.
“I am very happy that The Born Loser is still as appealing to readers, new and old, as it was when it first appeared 45 years ago,” Sansom said. “It is
a tribute to the great characters my dad created and his universal and timeless premise that Brutus Thornapple is an everyman, taking the fall for
the rest of us in the trials and tribulations we face everyday.” http:dailycartoonist.comindex.php20100505the-born-loser-
celebrates-45-yearshttp:dailycartoonist.comindex.php20100505the- born-loser-celebrates-45-years 7 July 2010
After all The Born Loser is one of the most popular comic strips in the
world. It had readers of more than 1,300 in newspapers around the world and on the Web at www.gocomics.com. It appears daily in more than 35 countries and as
the result it is also translated into nine languages. The Born Loser also gets into a six-time National Cartoonists Society award nominee for Best Humor Strip in
1991 and 1987. In the 1990, Topper Books published a compilation book The Born Loser’s Guide to Life http:dailycartoonist.comindex.php20100505the-
born-loser-celebrates-45-years 7 July 2010.