The AAUGH Blogger presents the Peanuts film strips

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Ever since I’ve been talking about the film strips in the Charlie Brown Career Education Program, people have been asking me to make them available to see. Alas, I cannot upload these, they are copyrighted material… but I have recently gotten into gear and cleared any permissions concerns I had about showing them as part of an educational presentation. I plan to put together a presentation with at least two of the full film strips for the coming year. I’ll likely pitch it as a panel at WonderCon, an annual Anaheim comics and media show that’s run by the same folks as the famed San Diego Comic-Con…. but I’ll certainly be open to showing it elsewhere.

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