Schroeder replay

Coming in October from Ballentine Books is Play It Again, Schroeder, a paperback strip collection. For those looking for strips about music (or at least about girls leaning on pianos), here you go!
The title for this, as with the title for the TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown, derive from a common mis-quote of a line from the classic film Casablanca. (Off the top of my head, I believe the correct quote is “Play it, Sam; you played it for her, you can play it for me.”) Sometimes, our images of things are created not by the things themselves, but by their mimics…

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