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Lewiston Cop by Jorge Pacheco – New Local Comic Strip

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D. D. Degg Published: January 17, 2026 1 minute 2 comments

Cartoonist Jorge Pacheco has started a comic strip in his local newspapers. The Lewiston Tribune and The Moscow-Pullman Daily News (both in Idaho) began running Lewiston Cop today.

Matt Baney at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News introduces readers to the new comic and the cartoonist:

The Comics section in today’s paper features the debut of “Lewiston Cop,” a strip written, illustrated and conceived by Jorge Pacheco, a freelance illustrator who lives in Lewiston. “Lewiston Cop” will appear each week in the Saturday paper.

This is an exciting venture for us at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and Lewiston Tribune. The papers have occasionally published local political cartoons over the years, but as far as we can remember, there’s never been a local cartoon strip in either paper.

Pacheco, 61, has been a working illustrator for almost 40 years. His “big break” was a job with Harvey Comics in Santa Monica, Calif., where he worked on numerous comic books, and he has toiled for several other comic book publishers [link added].

This is not Jorge’s first appearance on the funny pages. Twenty years ago he drew the Creators Syndicate distributed CEO Dad for the comic strip’s creator/writer Tom Stern for a short time.

Pacheco’s detailed illustrations — which he sketches on paper before coloring on a computer — are also notable for the settings. Today’s debut strip finds the Gould family at Hells Gate State Park in Lewiston, and future editions will include other familiar landmarks. Pacheco also expects “Lewiston Cop” to visit the Palouse at some point.