More Stilwell -- Picher of Duke

Another digitally restored "Stilwell" cartoon, from the Cleveland State University run in the student newspaper The Cauldron 40 years ago. This one takes place at The Downunder, a new campus area bar that was downstairs, naturally, in a building on Euclid Avenue. The bar is real, but Sluggo does not represent a real person. The gag is just meant as word play involving the name of one of the more popular beers sold in the Cleveland area. Duquesne (pronounced duke CANE, and nicknamed Duke), was a pilsener brewed at The Duquesne Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, a brewery with a history that dates all the way back to 1899, that went dark during Prohibition and came back strong in 1933 and enjoyed wide regional success until 1972, coincidentally the year this cartoon was published. It helps, of course, to know that actor John Wayne's nickname was "Duke."