Braddock says goodbye to Jane’s World

Paige Braddock, the Chief Creative Officer over at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates and quite a cartoonist on her own, has been doing her own strip for decades. I haven’t read all of “Jane’s World” but the chunks that I have read are quite enjoyable, and I always mean to get organized about reading more. Today, she brings it to a successful end (at least for the foreseeable future), andĀ The New York TimesĀ covered it.

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