The Schulz legacy interview

The KPCC interview I talked about earlier is now available online here. Probably the best part of it is Jean Schulz puncturing a little bit of the legend of the problems in getting “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on the air.

I got to spend time before the interview with Kevin Fagan, and afterward with both him and host Larry Mantle, both smart and successful guys. For those of you not familiar with Fagan’s strip “Drabble”, you can read it online here.

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Nat’s new video series

I’ve just launched a new video series, Comics Show and Tell with Nat Gertler. This will look at interesting and obscure aspects of comics (broadly considered), from my quirky point of view. The first two episodes (only one of which is released so far) deal with forgotten early African American …

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Happiness is a foreign book

Happiness is finding that a book you wrote has been translated into another language. Sadness is finding that Amazon lists you as “unknown author”.   40 SHARES Share Tweet this thing Follow the AAUGH Blog

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Spot the Dog

I publish things. I also research things. And really, the two efforts are often one and the same: I research stuff and find that it’s worth publishing; I publish stuff and in the process I’m doing research. That all just happened for me with a syndicated comics panel called “Spot” …