The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Book review – The Comics of Charles Schulz

The Comics of Charles Schulz cover

This review of The Comics of Charles Schulz, a collection of academic papers, is pretty much the same as the one I’ve posted on the blog. So it’s your choice about whether you want to read it or to listen to it (or to skip it altogether, I suppose.)

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