Article: Cartoonist Nicole Hollander's alter ego is the brassy Sylvia. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

BERKELEY, Calif. _ Think of Sylvia in Berkeley.

Sylvia wearing a V-neck angora sweater with strategically placed satin rose, a cunning bellman's cap on her dyed-and-teased black hair, bangles snaking up and down her dimpled arm. She's looking for a chocolate doughnut _ not a croissant, not a muffin, not a brioche. A doughnut, and maybe a cup of black coffee _ caffeinated coffee. She pauses on the corner of Shattuck and Vine, just down from Chez Panisse. She lights a cigarette, daring the smoking police to fan the smoke away.

Nicole Hollander, the creator of ``Sylvia,'' whose comic-strip life unfolds in some 65 newspapers nationwide, nods her head at the ...

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