Getting all academic on Schulz

Here’s an upcoming book about Schulz that is so far from imminent, they’re still rounding up folks to write it. The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life is planned as a volume in a series “Critical Approaches to Comics Artists”, and is expected to contain various essays on Schulz’s work. They’re looking for contributors, and are very interested in interdisciplinary approaches. If any of my readers here are of an academic bent and think they’d have something to contribute, more information is here.

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