Peanuts mini-comic

Ach, how did I miss this? Hitting better comic book stores today is A Peanuts Halloween, a mini comic book. Sold in bundles of 12 (for $4.99), this is a little comic book reprinting strips, meant to be handed out to trick-or-treaters. Call your local comic shop and ask if they have them in stock. Updated: No, don’t ask. Turns out they’re not for shops to sell to you for giving out for Halloween; they’re for stores to give out on Halloween. So plan your trick-or-treating carefully!

(And when you do, you can ask them if they have The Licensable BearTM Big Book of Officially Licensed Fun, which also hit stores today. It’s a collection of my own comic book series, with dozens of short stories about a cute li’l fella who just wants to be licensed for products. It reprints all four issues of his series plus some short stories that appeared elsewhere… and as it happens, includes the first comic book appearance of Barack Obama, from last year’s issue.)

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  As these two ads, from 1954 and 1961 respectively, show, Patty and Violet had a rather consistent relationship… living on slightly different planes, and not introducing themselves, but giving a name to each other. 40 SHARES Share Tweet this thing Follow the AAUGH Blog

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The Untouchable Charlie Brown

If you look at this ad, you may be wondering (as I did when I stumbled across it) why Charlie Brown is advertising a television show in 1963… and why, of all shows, he’s advertising The Untouchables. (Or you may be one of the many people now populating the earth too …

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Peanuts First Edition guide

As proud as I am of my Peanuts Book Collectors Guide, it is not the be-all and end-all guide…. and as much as I have visions of making it so, the real life of being a father of two, the runner of a business, a make of dinners, and a …