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A Charlie Brown Scholarly Christmas

I just got to read the article “Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Religion, and the Conventions of the Television Genre“, which appears in the current issue of The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Written by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind (currently of Washington And Lee University), this …

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Snoopy horses around

I’ve run into a few books lately about other dogs named Snoopy… which is hardly anything new, as there were books about dogs named Snoopy before there was Peanuts. But this is a first, I think. It’s by Snoopy. And he’s not a dog… (Note that the story is “as told …

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What’s up with the Artist’s Edition

I’m starting to get emails asking about where that big Peanuts Artist’s Edition that Amazon said would ship at the end of April is. It’s not out yet. It’s not just Amazon who doesn’t have it yet. Nobody does. The book is late…. but not unexpectedly so. Publishers who focus …

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Snoopy’s darker days

Found at Amazon Japan, and actually available to be shipped from Japan via Amazon US: PEANUTS meets SPECIAL PRODUCT DESIGN 2. I assume that’s supposed to be a tan, and not African American Surfing Snoopy… but you never know. The volume comes with a free shopping bag bearing this image.

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More on that Japanese Dr. Snoopy book

Friend of the blog Ray gave me a reason that the Japanese edition of Dr. Snoopy’s Advice for Pet Owners I talked about a week back had the odd price of 762 yen: because once a 5% sales tax was tacked on that, it becomes a nice round no-small-change-needed 800 yen. …

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Good lookin’ Italian books

I’m grooving on these Italian book covers, which use a different text sensibility than one typically sees on Peanuts books. (Click on the book to go to ordering page.)

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The Beagle has Landed cover

Here’s the actual cover art for the coming-in-June original graphics novel The Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown, obviously much more appropriate than the not-the-real-cover that Amazon is still showing. But one thing that the Amazon site has very right at the moment is the price… as I check it, it’s …

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The Complete Peanuts 1991-1992

Shipping in a few weeks is the latest volume in The Complete Peanuts, covering the years 1991-1992. I’ve already got a copy (provided by the publisher, Fantagraphics, with whom I have business dealings on other books), and here are my thoughts on reading through it: The introduction by cartoonist Tom …

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Pictures of Peanuts Philosophy

Here are the covers for this fall’s Peanuts Guides to Life series: Philosophy of Snoopy, The Wisdom of Woodstock, The Genius of Charlie Brown, and Life Lessons from Lucy. These books aren’t being offered in the US… which is why those links go to The Book Depository, a UK book source that offers free shipping …

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I’m running out of titles for posts displaying new covers

Here are the covers for two upcoming Peanuts books: Cheer Up, Charlie Brown and the new edition of Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday. Both are available for preorder.