It’s a Golf Book, Charlie Brown

It’s Par for the Course, Charlie Brown, a hardcover collection of golf-themed Peanuts strips, is now shipping.

And while I have you, I might as well point out that I’ve been improving the look of AAUGH.com a bit. The ugly menus on the left of each page are now less ugly, and the latest headlines from the AAUGH blog are now on each page (if you’re using a Javascript-enabled web browser. Okay, it really doesn’t matter to you folks. But I take pointless pride in such things. More improvements to come. (Now excuse me, I’ve got to go work on implementing some of the same changes for my 24 Hour Comics Day site.)

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