The absolute best way is to simply call or e-mail your local newspaper and get your friends and family to do the same. This has been done a few times for "The Big Picture" and it works. They will listen and my syndicate's crack sales team (I said crack sales team, not sales team on crack) is out there on the road pushing it to these people all the time.
A lot of newspaper editors and publishers don't really give a crap about the comics all that much (a lot of them seem to like comics that don't "make waves") until they know it will sell more newspapers and advertising or if a particular comic strip is causing some kind of ruckus ("ruckus". Is that a word?). The key is persistence with them.
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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.