Not that Snoopy

SnoopyCatI think we can assume that this feline star of the book Snoopy’s Holiday Adventure (self-published last month) is not, in fact, the beagle we’ve all come to know and love. (The currently listed price is $21.62, which, for 24 pages, is a bit steep even for my I-like-to-have-Not-That-Snoopy-books buying tendencies. The Kindle edition is just five bucks, though.)

On the other hand, Annie & Snoopy, while it may not be what either the Charles Schulz fan or the Harold Gray fan was looking for, is a mere 99 cents for the Kindle. The same sort of pricing holds true for Your Idols and Everyday Events: Snoopy Going to the Bank – although given that the author of that one created this work in college by randomly choosing a name from a list of “household names” and an event from a list of common events, it seems like this estimated-at-5-pages piece of writing may actually not be “not that Snoopy”, although it is clearly “not that licensed Snoopy.”

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Not That Charlie Brown
Those Other Charles Schulzes

Okay, so I search newspaper archives for unimportant things out of curiosity. And checking for pre-Sparky people named “Charles Schulz”, I found a fair amount, but the one which struck me was this obituary from 1900: It’s just the fact that this Charles Schulz had a son, Charles Schulz, who …

Not That Charlie Brown
Charlie Browns of the Cs

Digging through newspaper archives, I decided to delve into earlier Charlie Browns. These are just the ones that start with C from the 19th century: Crook (1822): Cricketeer (1860): Cairo-bound steamer (1862): Confederate prisoner (1862): Congressional candidate (1863): Concerning choice of spouse (1863): Coat borrower (1866): Captain (1867):   40 …

Not That Charlie Brown
General Charlie Brown

I posted recently about that other Charlie Brown, the one who is about to be the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force. Here he is, showing what kind of a person he is. (If you get the AAUGH Blog by email, you may need to click through to …