Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

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For those who like intellectual, analytical takes on Peanuts, next year will bring Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, and university press book. The author, Michelle Ann Abate, is an Ohio State University professor who has released a healthy number of books on the topics of comics, kid lit, and queerness, often in combination. In this book, she takes a character by character approach of digging deep and finding what runs underneath the strip. This volume is being released in both paperback and hardcover.

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