A close-up look at my work on Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking

Today’s work: looking at the artwork, trying to erase the stray dots that have been caused by printing and scanning and half a century of time passing, while not erasing stray dots actually caused by the ink pen of Charles M. Schulz. If he’d only signed each genuine stray dot, this would be easier…

Book coming in November. Artwork copyright Peanuts Worldwide LLC.

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