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Feb 16Liked by Nancy Beiman

This is a terrific essay on what it takes to create an entertaining and successful comic strip. It is every bit like researching for animation, and sculpture. And, creative license is significant because we speak with our own voices through our art. You have a lot to express, and in a really fun way, so draw on!

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Feb 16Liked by Nancy Beiman

Charles Schulz was a wee bit dismayed that people wrote to him to give him solutions for Peppermint Patty’s constant falling asleep in class. But he countered that by saying that it’s funnier if she falls asleep. For if she never fell asleep in class, how would that ever be funny? The dogs are very funny just the way you wrote them, Ms. Beiman! At least feedback occurred more slowly in the 1980s for Sparky Schulz!

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