{"id":4476,"date":"2016-12-17T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2016-12-17T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T14:24:29","slug":"good-grief-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/good-grief-modern-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Grief! Modern Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoodGriefofModernLife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4477\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoodGriefofModernLife-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"goodgriefofmodernlife\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoodGriefofModernLife-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoodGriefofModernLife-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoodGriefofModernLife-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoodGriefofModernLife.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>For those of you who like an academic bent to the way you think about Peanuts, August brings\u00a0<a id=\"amznPsBmLink_1656823\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Comics-Charles-Schulz-Critical-Approaches\/dp\/1496812891\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=e6c009c2a845247a5c33947a0d9464f4&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life\" data-amzn-link-id=\"e6c009c2a845247a5c33947a0d9464f4\"><strong>The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_1656823\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=e6c009c2a845247a5c33947a0d9464f4&amp;_cb=1481983910159\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/>. This entry in the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series has been in the works for a while &#8211; the call for papers went out in 2013. This is at least the third book from the University Press of Mississippi on Schulz, but when you have a focus on comics, who can blame you? I&#8217;ll see if I can get a rundown of the papers included.<\/p>\n<p>(I sometimes wonder whether, if invited to contribute to volume like this, I&#8217;d have anything to put forth. I&#8217;m not an academic, my writing tends to be very popular-oriented. This doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t have thoughts on Schulz&#8217;s work, of course, but could I make a point worth making with the sort of rigor that&#8217;s expected? Ahhh, I don&#8217;t see the calls for papers, so I guess I&#8217;ll never know!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, being an academic book, this has a list price of $65, which is a bit of an ouch. (I have a couple of the contributors\u00a0on my Facebook friends list. Am I gonna try to score a review copy? You betcha!) But you should click through on the link here, take a look&#8230; then finish all your Christmas shopping, and let Amazon provide me with the referral fee! (He says, as he decorates his doghouse in hopes of winning the top prize&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who like an academic bent to the way you think about Peanuts, August brings\u00a0The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life. This entry in the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series has been in the works for a while &#8211; the call for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}