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* ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'': The city is never named, but depicted as a medium-sized American Midwest town with snowy winters, a university, and a large and diverse LGBT community. Maps included as title pages in some of the collections show a surprising number of streets named after famous lesbians. Author Alison Bechdel has said that the look and character of the city is very loosely based on Minneapolis.
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* ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'': The city is never named, but depicted as a medium-sized American Midwest town with snowy winters, a university, and a large and diverse LGBT community. Maps included as title pages in some of the collections show a surprising number of streets named after famous lesbians. Author Alison Bechdel Creator/AlisonBechdel has said that the look and character of the city is very loosely based on Minneapolis.
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** That said, there are some hints that it’s in Creator/BillWatterson’s hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland. [[https://thecomicninja.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/calvin-and-hobbes-sliiiiide-large.jpg This strip]] clearly shows the Great Lakes when Calvin imagines he’s climbed up to outer space, and a splash panel from a Sunday strip with GROSS had a sign next to their treehouse reading “Beware: falling buckeyes!”, a reference to Ohio’s nickname of “the Buckeye State”.
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** That said, there are some hints that it’s in Creator/BillWatterson’s hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland. [[https://thecomicninja.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/calvin-and-hobbes-sliiiiide-large.jpg This strip]] clearly shows the Great Lakes when Calvin imagines he’s climbed up to outer space, and a splash panel from a Sunday strip with GROSS had a sign next to their treehouse reading “Beware: falling buckeyes!”, a reference to Ohio’s nickname of “the Buckeye State”. Also, a giant-sized Calvin is depicted carrying the Chagrin Falls Popcorn Shop on the back cover to ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes''.
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** The strip never brought up the name of the town, but it's been mentioned in other ''Peanuts'' material on at least two occasions: the 1963 book ''Security is a Thumb and a Blanket'' calls the town “Pinetree Corners”, while the 2002 TV special ''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' lists it as “Sparkyville, USA”.
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** The strip never brought up the name of the town, but it's been mentioned in other ''Peanuts'' material on at least two occasions: the 1963 book ''Security is a Thumb and a Blanket'' calls the town “Pinetree Corners”, while the 2002 TV special ''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' ''WesternAnimation/CharlieBrownsChristmasTales'' lists it as “Sparkyville, USA”.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never precisely clear on where it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a chief cartoonist for the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never precisely clear on where it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a chief cartoonist for the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' has never specified its location, though it's most likely set somewhere in Maine (where Lincoln Peirce is from), which is supported by the fact that there is plenty of snow during the winter. Even with that information, the city Nate lives in is unnamed. The name of Nate's school doesn't give any clues either, simply being called P.S. 38.
* ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' has never specified its location, though it's most likely set somewhere in Maine (where Lincoln Peirce is from), which is supported by the fact that there is plenty of snow during the winter. Even with that information, the city Nate lives in is unnamed. The name of Nate's school doesn't give any clues either, simply being called P.S. 38.
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* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ComicStrip/DickTracy's adventures take place in an unnamed analogue of Chicago (based on the presence of Capone counterpart Big Boy). Interestingly, the 1990 Creator/WarrenBeatty [[Film/DickTracy film adaptation]] never revealed the city's name (the characters just called it “the city”), but many film critics automatically assumed it was Chicago.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has hinted that the town in which the Fox family lives is called Hillsdale (''e.g.'', a Hillsdale Mall in an early strip, H's on the school team's uniforms, ''etc.''), but besides an address in the first strip, no specifics are given. Peter and Roger are fans of Northeastern sports teams (like the Boston Red Sox, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bulls), but even that doesn’t necessarily place them in the Northeast. There are some indications that they live in the Chicago metro area, since Roger takes a flight from the Chicago airport in one arc.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s location is never specified in the comics, though according to the animated special ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', it's Muncie, Indiana, Jim Davis' hometown.
* Westfinster, the town where ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' takes place, is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), Westfinster's most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has hinted that the town in which the Fox family lives is called Hillsdale (''e.g.'', a Hillsdale Mall in an early strip, H's on the school team's uniforms, ''etc.''), but besides an address in the first strip, no specifics are given. Peter and Roger are fans of Northeastern sports teams (like the Boston Red Sox, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bulls), but even that doesn’t necessarily place them in the Northeast. There are some indications that they live in the Chicago metro area, since Roger takes a flight from the Chicago airport in one arc.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s location is never specified in the comics, though according to the animated special ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', it's Muncie, Indiana, Jim Davis' hometown.
* Westfinster, the town where ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' takes place, is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), Westfinster's most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
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* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s location is never specified in the comics, though according to the animated special ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', it's Muncie, Indiana, Jim Davis' hometown.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never precisely clear on where it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a chief cartoonist for the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has hinted that the town in which the Fox family lives is called Hillsdale (''e.g.'', a Hillsdale Mall in an early strip, H's on the school team's uniforms, ''etc.''), but besides an address in the first strip, no specifics are given. Peter and Roger are fans of Northeastern sports teams (like the Boston Red Sox, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bulls), but even that doesn’t necessarily place them in the Northeast.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never precisely clear on where it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a chief cartoonist for the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has hinted that the town in which the Fox family lives is called Hillsdale (''e.g.'', a Hillsdale Mall in an early strip, H's on the school team's uniforms, ''etc.''), but besides an address in the first strip, no specifics are given. Peter and Roger are fans of Northeastern sports teams (like the Boston Red Sox, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bulls), but even that doesn’t necessarily place them in the Northeast.
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* ComicStrip/DickTracy's adventures take place in an unnamed analogue of Chicago (based on the presence of Capone counterpart Big Boy). Interestingly, the 1990 Creator/WarrenBeatty [[Film/DickTracy film adaptation]] never revealed the city's name (the characters just called it “the city”), but many film critics automatically assumed it was Chicago.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
* Westfinster, the town where ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' takes place, is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), Westfinster's most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
* Westfinster, the town where ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' takes place, is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), Westfinster's most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
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* ComicStrip/DickTracy's adventures take place in an unnamed analogue of Chicago (based on the presence of Capone counterpart Big Boy). Interestingly, the 1990 Creator/WarrenBeatty [[Film/DickTracy film adaptation]] ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never revealed the city's name (the characters just called it “the city”), but many film critics automatically assumed it was Chicago.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's notprecisely clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
* Westfinster, the townon where ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' takes place, it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), Westfinster's most likely setting is either New England or chief cartoonist for the mid-Atlantic.''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not
* Westfinster, the town
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' never explicitly stated its setting, but the few clues given suggest either Minnesota (where Charles Schulz grew up), Northern California (where he spent the last four decades of his life), or a combination of the two. Since it hardly ever snows in most parts of Northern California, Minnesota is probably the answer.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' never explicitly stated its setting, but the few clues given suggest either Minnesota (where Charles Schulz grew up), Northern California (where he spent the last four decades of his life), or a fanciful combination of the two. Since it hardly ever snows The frequent snow depicted in most parts of ''Peanuts'' would seem to tip things more to Minnesota, since snow in Northern California, Minnesota California is probably pretty rare outside of the answer.Sierras.
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-->'''Lucy:''' Which side of the Mississippi are we on?\\
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** Lucy did once win a trophy for "Miss Fussbudget of Hennepin County", which would conclusively put them in or near Minneapolis. On the other hand, the character 5 once said his last name was 95472 and further claimed that was also his family's ZIP code, which would put them in Sebastopol, California.
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* The location of ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), its most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
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* The location of Westfinster, the town where ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' takes place, is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), its Westfinster's most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
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* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
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* While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.Ohio.
* The location of ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), its most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
* The location of ''ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}'' is a mystery. Given its fishing industry and snowy winters (especially prevalent in animated spinoffs), its most likely setting is either New England or the mid-Atlantic.
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* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
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* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.there.
*While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
*While we know ''{{ComicStrip/Agnes}}'' is set in {{UsefulNotes/Ohio}}, it's not clear where, except that it's the southeastern part of Ohio.
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* ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'': The city is never named, but depicted as a medium-sized American Midwest town with snowy winters, a university, and a large and diverse LGBT community. Maps included as title pages in some of the collections show a surprising number of streets named after famous lesbians. Author Alison Bechdel has said that the look and character of the city is very loosely based on Minneapolis.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' never makes any direct mention of where it's set, and Calvin and Hobbes themselves aren’t quite sure. PlayedForLaughs when Calvin is daydreaming during geography class, and Ms. Wormwood asks him what state he lives in. Calvin replies “denial”. Ms. Wormwood states she can't argue with that.
-->“If I remember my atlas, we live in a big, purple country.”\\
“And our house is by the giant letter ‘E’ in the word ‘States’.”
** That said, there are some hints that it’s in Creator/BillWatterson’s hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland. [[https://thecomicninja.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/calvin-and-hobbes-sliiiiide-large.jpg This strip]] clearly shows the Great Lakes when Calvin imagines he’s climbed up to outer space, and a splash panel from a Sunday strip with GROSS had a sign next to their treehouse reading “Beware: falling buckeyes!”, a reference to Ohio’s nickname of “the Buckeye State”.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' never explicitly stated its setting, but the few clues given suggest either Minnesota (where Charles Schulz grew up), Northern California (where he spent the last four decades of his life), or a combination of the two. Since it hardly ever snows in most parts of Northern California, Minnesota is probably the answer.
** Lampshaded in one strip from April 1995, when Rerun says that marbles-playing bully Joe Agate is “the best player this side of the Mississippi.”
-->'''Lucy:''' Which side of the Mississippi are we on?\\
'''Rerun:''' I don't have the slightest idea.
** The strip never brought up the name of the town, but it's been mentioned in other ''Peanuts'' material on at least two occasions: the 1963 book ''Security is a Thumb and a Blanket'' calls the town “Pinetree Corners”, while the 2002 TV special ''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' lists it as “Sparkyville, USA”.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s location is never specified in the comics, though according to the animated special ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', it's Muncie, Indiana, Jim Davis' hometown.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never precisely clear on where it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a chief cartoonist for the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has hinted that the town in which the Fox family lives is called Hillsdale (''e.g.'', a Hillsdale Mall in an early strip, H's on the school team's uniforms, ''etc.''), but besides an address in the first strip, no specifics are given. Peter and Roger are fans of Northeastern sports teams (like the Boston Red Sox, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bulls), but even that doesn’t necessarily place them in the Northeast.
* At least one early strip in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' said the strip took place in Stephan Pastis’ hometown of Albany, California, which is near San Francisco. However, this is never mentioned again, and a later series shows the characters needing to take a cross-country bus trip to San Francisco.
* ComicStrip/DickTracy's adventures take place in an unnamed analogue of Chicago (based on the presence of Capone counterpart Big Boy). Interestingly, the 1990 Creator/WarrenBeatty [[Film/DickTracy film adaptation]] never revealed the city's name (the characters just called it “the city”), but many film critics automatically assumed it was Chicago.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' never makes any direct mention of where it's set, and Calvin and Hobbes themselves aren’t quite sure. PlayedForLaughs when Calvin is daydreaming during geography class, and Ms. Wormwood asks him what state he lives in. Calvin replies “denial”. Ms. Wormwood states she can't argue with that.
-->“If I remember my atlas, we live in a big, purple country.”\\
“And our house is by the giant letter ‘E’ in the word ‘States’.”
** That said, there are some hints that it’s in Creator/BillWatterson’s hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland. [[https://thecomicninja.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/calvin-and-hobbes-sliiiiide-large.jpg This strip]] clearly shows the Great Lakes when Calvin imagines he’s climbed up to outer space, and a splash panel from a Sunday strip with GROSS had a sign next to their treehouse reading “Beware: falling buckeyes!”, a reference to Ohio’s nickname of “the Buckeye State”.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' never explicitly stated its setting, but the few clues given suggest either Minnesota (where Charles Schulz grew up), Northern California (where he spent the last four decades of his life), or a combination of the two. Since it hardly ever snows in most parts of Northern California, Minnesota is probably the answer.
** Lampshaded in one strip from April 1995, when Rerun says that marbles-playing bully Joe Agate is “the best player this side of the Mississippi.”
-->'''Lucy:''' Which side of the Mississippi are we on?\\
'''Rerun:''' I don't have the slightest idea.
** The strip never brought up the name of the town, but it's been mentioned in other ''Peanuts'' material on at least two occasions: the 1963 book ''Security is a Thumb and a Blanket'' calls the town “Pinetree Corners”, while the 2002 TV special ''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' lists it as “Sparkyville, USA”.
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s location is never specified in the comics, though according to the animated special ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', it's Muncie, Indiana, Jim Davis' hometown.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' is never precisely clear on where it’s set, but a number of references suggest that it’s somewhere in central Ohio (although Jeremy does state that he was born in Nebraska). The strip is drawn by Jim Borgman, a chief cartoonist for the ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', which is in southern Ohio.
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has hinted that the town in which the Fox family lives is called Hillsdale (''e.g.'', a Hillsdale Mall in an early strip, H's on the school team's uniforms, ''etc.''), but besides an address in the first strip, no specifics are given. Peter and Roger are fans of Northeastern sports teams (like the Boston Red Sox, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bulls), but even that doesn’t necessarily place them in the Northeast.
* At least one early strip in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' said the strip took place in Stephan Pastis’ hometown of Albany, California, which is near San Francisco. However, this is never mentioned again, and a later series shows the characters needing to take a cross-country bus trip to San Francisco.
* ComicStrip/DickTracy's adventures take place in an unnamed analogue of Chicago (based on the presence of Capone counterpart Big Boy). Interestingly, the 1990 Creator/WarrenBeatty [[Film/DickTracy film adaptation]] never revealed the city's name (the characters just called it “the city”), but many film critics automatically assumed it was Chicago.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' takes place in a city that was unnamed for decades – until 2009, when Curtis and Barry play hooky to watch Obama’s inauguration in Washington. They travel there by city bus, proving that they live in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': When first seen, Camp Swampy had palm trees and was definitely not in Alaska. That's about all we have, except the palm trees aren't there anymore, and it now snows there.
