Low density biography
I’ve got some catching up to do for the blog… and as so often happens, I seem to be doing it in what programmers called LIFO order — last in, first out. That’s what happens when you take the thing off the top of the stack you’ve been building, instead …
Charles “Chuck” Brown gets his own TV series
He’s a comics character. His real name is Charles Brown, though that’s not what he’s usually called (some call him Chuck). And according to this IGN article, he’s about to get his own animated series. But he’s not the round-headed kid that you may be thinking of. Kite-Man is a …
The AAUGH Blogger gets as SIGNED Snoopy cover!
I just received my latest eBay order. It’s one of the programs for the AT&T golf pro-ams (previously the Crosby Pro-Am), with a Snoopy cover. And it’s autographed! And if you think I’m bouncing around happily because I have a Schulz autograph — don’t be silly! There are so many …
Unofficial archives
A year and a half back, I posted a review of Charlie and Friends in Tip Top Comics – The Full Series Reader Collection, a print-on-demand reprint of much the same material as in Peanuts Dell Archive, only without the license for using the Peanuts name. I found, unsurprisingly, that the …
introducing Peanuts characters
In the early days of Peanuts, it may have been a little hard to get to know the characters, because Schulz didn’t often include their names in the strip. Shermy, for example, was the very first Peanuts character to speak in the strip, the only character to talk in the …
A Christmas correction
Earlier, I announced that later this year Running Press would be issuing a kit with two a kit with two A Charlie Brown Christmas jigsaw puzzles and a 32-page book adaptation of the special. It turns out I was in error. The book enclosed will actually be a sticker book with …
Jon Hamm saying “Snoopy”
There’s an ad for the streaming service Apple TV+ in which Mad Men star Jon Hamm, complaining about the actors who have Apple TV+ shows when he doesn’t, says “Snoopy.” Twice. Thing is, I think that the shorter version of the ad that I’ve been running into on TV uses …
Peanuts for prisoners
Given that it seems to be book-banning season again, I thought I’d double-check that I covered when the Texas prison system had banned a Peanuts book I wrote. I had, and I even covered how they’d banned A Charlie Brown Christmas. But I started to wonder whether there were Peanuts …
Box set box
We now have an image of the upcoming Happiness Is . . . a Four-Book Classic Box Set, referring to itself in its title. And I cannot help but to be reminded of this book, and its series of titles, which my pal Mark Evanier discusses on his blog. …
Two deaths
Word is going around that Peter Robbins, who provided the voice of Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas and other early specials, died from suicide last week. Robbins had a history of mental struggles, which had played itself out in drug use and earning some time in prison. He was …