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The year in cartoons

The best of 2013 from Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Sack.

January 6, 2014 — 6:13pm

David Banks has been involved with various aspects of the opinion pages and their online counterparts since 2005. Before that, he was primarily involved with the editing and production of local coverage. He joined the Star Tribune in 1994.

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