Artist’s Edition date kinda set

I told you a couple days ago that the Artist’s Edition was going to land in comic book stores on June 11th. Well, thats what the publisher said. However, as AAUGH Blog reader Joseph pointed out to me, the distributor says that the book will hit shops June 18. Which one is right? Danged if I know.

But it does look like the new graphic novel The Beagle Had Landed, Charlie Brown will be hitting the comic shops… and Amazon… June 11. There’s still time to preorder, and the discount at the moment is more than a third off.

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Joe Matt, RIP

Word is going around about the death of cartoonist Joe Matt, of heart attack at his drawing board, at age 60. Best known for hiw blunt autobiographical comic book series Peepshow, his relevance to the Peanuts world is as one of the three alt cartoonists who reworked Peanuts strips to make …

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Peanuts Schultz

Alert brother-of-the-blog Dave recently pointed out that the 1946 film Our Hearts Were Growing Up (a sequel to the more-beloved 1942 Our Hearts Were Young and Gay) has William Demarest playing a character named Peanuts Schultz. A little investigation told us why the character had that name which would echo oddly to …

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You don’t know how much I wish this were real.

Sick and tired of people trying to sell bootleg Peanuts books on Amazon by listing someone besides Charles M. Schulz as the author? Sure you are, and I’ve long since stopped talking about it. But now I see that someone is trying to balance matters! Yes siree, it’s a bootleg …