Under the influence of The Wolf

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I’ve talked about this a bit earlier on this blog, but now I’ve gone and made a whole video about the odd tranformation that the World War II cartoon panel “The Wolf”, aimed at American GIs, slowly evolved into a daily comic strip about a quirky bunch of neighborhood kids and a dog… and that the manner in which that transition took place seems likely to have been a key influence in “Peanuts” taking the form that we know it in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4oPxhSOSdk

(The book I published of The Wolf is still available, of course!)

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