AAUGH.com Frequently Asked Questions

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What can you tell me about the creator of Peanuts?

Click here for AAUGH.com's biography of Schulz. If you want to know more about him, I recommend Rheta Grimsley Johnson's authorized biography, Good Grief : The Story of Charles M. Schulz. RETURN TO TOP

How can I memorialize Charles Schulz?

Schulz was a great supporter of various charities. You may wish to consider a donation in his name to Canine Companions for Independence, one of his favorite charities. (Donations in his name are placed in an endowment, which means that they'll be soing good for a long, long time to come.)

Another charity he strongly supported was a D-Day memorial. (Fans will recall the D-Day strips that Schulz did in his later years.) To quote an editorial that Schulz wrote about the museum:

One of the rooms, which will be of special interest to my fellow cartoonists, will be the Bill Mauldin Room. This will contain a rotating exhibit of all the cartoons drawn in all areas around the world during the war. There is probably no cartoonist who has sustained unqualified admiration more than Bill Mauldin, so it is fitting that this room be named after Bill. It's certainly one of the best tributes cartoonists can pay to him.

In Memory of Charles Schulz
The National D-Day Memorial Foundation
P.O. Box 77
Bedford, VA 24523

No. Literally thousands of strips have never been reprinted in U.S. books (and a number of strips have been reprinted solely in books that are no longer in print.) RETURN TO TOP

Will there ever be a complete strip reprint book set or CD-ROM?

Yes! Fantagraphics Books is publishing The Complete Peanuts, a series of 25 volumes covering all 50 years of the strip. Only two volumes per year, however, making it a long time between volume 1's collection of the 1950-1952 strips (April, 2004) and volume 25's collection of 1999-2000 (Spring, 2016).
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Is AAUGH.com an official Peanuts site?

AAUGH.com is not endorsed by the Charles Schulz estate or by United Media. They haven't said anything against it, either. It's just a bookshop and a collector's guide, neither of which requires any endorsement. Characters depicted on the book covers displayed on the site are copyright by United Media. RETURN TO TOP

Who is behind AAUGH.com?

I'm Nat Gertler. I'm a life-long Peanuts buff. I've got around 800 different Peanuts and Schulz-related books in my private collection. I'm also a professional writer, and my career includes writing comic books, articles about Charles Schulz, computer books, prose fiction, and more. RETURN TO TOP

How did AAUGH.com come about? The site started in 1995 or 1996 as Nat Gertler's Peanuts Book List, a collector's guide to the strip reprint books. This was sheerly a way of sharing my hobby with the world. The collector's guide was regularly updated and expanded. Later in 1996, I added the book ordering catalog as a fun experiment. In 1999, the catalog was expanded to include music and videos. In December 1999, the name was changed to AAUGH.com. In January 2000, I began the email newsletter, which in October 2004 was replaced by The AAUGH Blog as a frequently-updated news-and-reviews source for the Peanuts book fan. RETURN TO TOP

What's with the funky prices?

Unfortunately, AAUGH.com does not get to set its own prices. (I wish we could! Believe it or not, we make more money when we sell a book at a 20% or 30% discount than when we sell it at full price!) The prices are set by Amazon.com, who actually process your order. These prices are usually quite good, a nice discount off of the cover prices of the books. However, when there is some difficulty getting a proper supply of the books, Amazon.com sometimes prices the books at cover price, and on rare occasions with a surcharge above cover price. Because the supply situation (and thus the price) can change at any time, we had to stop listing prices on our pages. When you click through to Amazon's description page, the price will be there. RETURN TO TOP

I own this old Peanuts book. What's it worth?

Sorry, but I don't believe in fixed values for "collectibles". I find that price guides do not reflect reality, and are often created to manipulate the market rather than reflect it. I've also found that they hurt the very hobby that their about; that's why I turned down the publisher who approached me to write a Peanuts book collector's guide and value book.

Having said that, I will note that the people who ask me this question are almost always asking it about a very common book. Just because a book is 35 years old, that doesn't mean it's rare. Print runs of Peanuts books were quite large in the 1960s.

If you want to get maximum value out of a Peanuts book, read it!

(I'm always so much happier when I get asked "I've got this weird Peanuts book, and I wouldn't part with it for the world... but can you tell me what it is?!?") RETURN TO TOP

I have a question not on this list...

Many questions about Peanuts books can be answered using our collector's guide. Information about animated Peanuts specials can be had on Scott McGuire's Peanuts Animation and Video List (this will open a new window in most browsers.) If you have a question that those don't cover, feel free to ask me via email to questions@AAUGH.com. RETURN TO TOP