General

Answers!

I’ve been getting both questions and answers in my email… and since the questions are ones that I can answer, it’s a win all around! AAUGH Blog reader Jim went above and beyond the call of duty in answering the question about whether the reprints of of Peanuts and More Peanuts would …

Upcoming releases

More Peanuts for America

The new editions of Peanuts and More Peanuts, the first two Peanuts books, which are coming from UK publisher Titan are now listed at Amazon. Now, there’s a chance this will be like the Australian Classic Treasury (which Amazon unsurprisingly did not deliver to me but still claims they’re going …

New releases

Little Stories, Simple Truths

Newly available at your local Hallmark store… well, at least, at the second-most-local Hallmark store around here… is Little Stories, Simple Truths: The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas. This is a collection of Christmas-themed Peanuts dailies, with one-page essays by Molly Wigand introdcing each of five sections. The essays don’t …

New releases

Solving the Charlie Brown Christmas puzzle

So you were wondering how long we would have to go without a fresh book format adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas? Well, you can return to spending the time you had focused on that question to instead doing your job or taking care of your family, because the answer is …

Upcoming releases

Peanuts Off Model

Ah, now here is an interesting one – a book offering the work of other creators trying to interpret Peanuts. Peanuts Off Model will ship in September, and promises work by “hit television creators, award-winning cartoonists and best-selling authors” in doing their own take on Schulz’s creation. I’ll be interested to …

Discounts

Peanuts mini-kit discounts

I gotta say that the Peanuts “minikits”, little boxed sets with a small toy and often a little minibook, are quite overpriced for what they are at $9.99. But if you want them, That Daily Deal has them today for $3.99 including shipping. If you want Best Friends, Snoopy Flying Ace, or Finger Puppet …

New releases

Two decades worth of good Peanuts news

Last year, I found The Big Book of Peanuts Comics, a single volume which collected all of the Peanuts daily strips (i.e., no Sundays) from the 1970s, for sale for about $20 at Costco. A number of you wanted to lay your hands on a copy, but the only place I …

General

a reflection

If my house is somehow the only one that survives whatever cataclysm befalls Earth, then the eventual alien archaeologists will have some very odd ideas about what our culture was like. Perhaps they will think this was a chapel dedicated to the study and worship of Snoopy.

Reviews

book cover abuse

While the humor of it is not quite to my taste, I’m still amazed that I’ve never before run into this website devoted to parody Peanuts book covers.

music

Things I didn’t know I owned

I know what this is, the first recorded audio material in Peanuts history. But I didn’t think I owned a copy. I haven’t gone through my record collection in a long time… but as I’m certain that I’ve never listened to it. I must’ve gotten it sometime after my last …