The AAUGH Blog Podcast: It’s Only a Game

In the late 1950s, Charles Schulz created another syndicated newspaper feature, the gag panel “It’s Only a Game”. The AAUGH Blogger talks about the history of this creation, and his own efforts to restore and reprint this little-known series.

The book It’s Only a Game: The Complete Color Collection is available for immediate order from Amazon.

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I bet that's not licensed!
To be fair, I could see Olaf telling the time this way.

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