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The Grim Reaper—that black-coated, scythe-carrying personification of death—has appeared in over a hundred and four cartoons in The New Yorker since 1937. But where was he prior to that?

The Chinese Embassy to France has made a clarification after someone falsely used its official Twitter account to publish a cartoon featuring the US as the Grim Reaper. The embassy said, "Someone ...