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Indie Alaska
Alaska cartoonist draws his experience with Parkinson’s
Season 11
Episode 4
Peter Dunlap-Shohl was living his lifelong dream, as an editorial cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News. But in 2002, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he asked himself What else would he be losing besides his craft as an artist? his identity?
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