I have a batch of 1983 United Feature weekly syndicate books, and I found in one issue two weeks worth of a panel cartoon called Misery Is… by Scrawls (Sam C. Rawls). My run of the books is by no means perfect, but I cannot find this feature anywhere but in the May 16 edition, and I have other weekly books from April, May and June, though not all of them. 

In the May 16th book there are two weeks worth of the feaure, slated for publication in papers of May 16-21 and May 23-28.

This is obviously a very short run feature, and I have no printed examples in my collection. I cannot find any mentions of it in E&P or in interviews/articles on Sam Rawls. I checked the online archives of the Atlanta Constitution, where Rawls was the editorial cartoonist at this time, and a spot check did not find them running the feature. 

So this one is a misery, er, I mean a mystery. If anyone has a printed example, or knows of a run of it somewhere, don’t keep it to yourself. Let’s get this one into the books as a feature that made it into papers.