The Keyring Komix

AAUGH Blog reader Douglas believes he has acquired a complete set of those Hallmark books-on-keyrings that I’ve blogged about recently, and was kind enough not only to share his list of what titles exist – he actually offered up his doubles for the AAUGH.com Reference Library, doubling up the number of these that are on hand.

So what keyring books exist?

  • A Woman’s World 
  • Charlie Brown’s World
  • It’s Only a Game (Not to be confused with reprint collections of Schulz’s non-Peanuts “It’s Only a Game” strip.)
  • Live and Learn 
  • Love, Sweet Love
  • Lucy’s Philosophy
  • Sayings of Snoopy
  • The Flying Ace
  • The Wisdom of Linus

There are small hardback books that came out later with the same titles (or similar titles; Sayings of Snoopy became Cheery Sayings of Snoopy), but with fewer strips and at times in different order, for most but not all of these.

Classic finds
TV Guide revelation

The latest addition to the AAUGH.com reference library is a TV Guide from February, 1980, which features an article about Peanuts, written by Schulz himself. In it, he discusses why some things work in the strip that don’t work in the animated specials, and he manages to do so in a …

Classic finds
Review: Christmas Gift Certificates for You

When I ordered a copy of the 1981 Hallmark Peanuts product Christmas Gift Certificates for You, I reckoned it would be one of those novelty coupon books, each page removable and offering the recipient a walk in the snow, help taking down the tree, or some Peanuts-y equivalent thereof. I …

Classic finds
Wheelnuts

 I just picked up the July 1964 issue of Drag Cartoons, a black and white comics magazine focused not on performative gender-bending as the youth must suspect, but on souped-up autos, including not just drag racers but hot rods as well. Did I pick it up because it had a …