Here's my thought on the best way to find copies of those 1995-1996 newspaper strips.
Berger thought that newspapers geographically close to Northampton, MA would be the most likely ones to have carried the strip until its end.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette is a long-running current paper for the Northampton region. Find a microfilm reel of that paper during those years, and you'd be able to view or even copy the comic strips if they appeared.
The Forbes Library in Northampton does appear to have a full run of the paper on microfilm. Anybody wanna do some advanced research?
http://forbeslibrary.org/research/lo...m-collections/