Starting this week, a new locally-drawn strip will be showing up with the comics here on page 4.

Gus Petersen - a Petersburg resident

attending The Kubert School, which is an art school in New Jersey that concentrates on cartoon and graphic art - approached the Pilot this fall with an offer to contribute something new.

Growing up in Petersburg, Petersen remembers wishing there were comics in the Pilot. In some of the daily papers from around the area he would see the classic comic strips, "Fox Trot, Garfield, all the others that everyone knows and likes," he says.

"I've always just kind of res...