This is Comic Geekspeak Episode 515 Talking Letter Columns.

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All right.

This episode, we are going to talk about letter columns.

They're a huge part of comics, or at least they used to be.

And joining us to discuss this episode is Augie DeBleek, the person behind the pipeline podcast. Welcome to the show,

Augie. All right, thanks, Ryan. Great to be here. So, Peter, do you want to say anything about this?

Absolutely.

First off, I think it's, this is like a long time in the making, you know, the guy who was, you know, the first comic book podcaster.

You put out your first episode.

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