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It’s a Golf Book, Charlie Brown

It’s Par for the Course, Charlie Brown, a hardcover collection of golf-themed Peanuts strips, is now shipping. And while I have you, I might as well point out that I’ve been improving the look of AAUGH.com a bit. The ugly menus on the left of each page are now less …

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Snoopy and Charlie Brown and Charlie Brown and Snoopy

we now have an upcoming Peanuts board book for kids called Snoopy & Charlie Brown. The existing cover image seems to be a reworking of an earlier board book, Charlie Brown & Snoopy. Is this just a smaller edition of that larger board book? Or is this a completely different board book, despite the titles? After all, Charlie Brown & Snoopy was a totally different book from Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

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Outtasight Peanuts book

The latest addition to the AAUGH.com library is another Peanuts book in Braille, the system of raised-dot printing for the blind. This is an edition of Here’s Snoopy, a 1988 storybook for kids. Unlike the American Brotherhood for the Blind editions, this doesn’t include raised pictures… or even unraised pictures. …

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Life gets less colorful

As I noted in a recent post, sometimes the cover that we first see of an upcoming Peanuts book is not the cover we end up with. For a fairly extreme example, take a look at the image at the left, which is what we were told would be the …

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Shopping time running out!

Well, time is running out for Christmas shopping. Today is the last day to order through AAUGH.com for guaranteed U.S. delivery by Christmas Eve using Amazon’s standard shipping. After this, you’ll need to use more expensive shipping options to be sure your gifts get there on time. (And if you …

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Libraries have Peanuts books!

According to the Online Computer Library Center’s list of the most-held books by member libraries, Peanuts comes in at #70. It looks like they’re lumping all Peanuts books together (and misspelling “Schulz”, sigh), but it’s still an impressive place to be.

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It’s Only A Game now shipping

For those of you who aren’t into pre-ordering, It’s Only A Game (the collection of Charles Schulz’s lost syndicated comic series) is now available for immediate shipping, and at a healthy discount to boot. And as a reminder, ordering stuff through these links is a great way to handle your …

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For Better or For Schulz

Lynn Johnston, talented cartoonist behind the strip For Better or For Worse, will be signing her new book at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa on November 7th, from 1 to 2 pm. Sounds like a great excuse to stop by the museum to me!

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Bonus discount trick!

If you’re shopping through AAUGH and want to save a little extra money, here’s what you do: once you click through to an item’s description on Amazon, find that box marked A9 web search over on the left side of the page. Type anything into the field there, then click …

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AAUGH.com news: Schulz stuff forever!

Yes, it’s been a fair while since the last newsletter, but I have been a busy boy. A lot of that effort has been being put into IT’S ONLY A GAME, the collection of Schulz’s never-before-in-a-book series of sports cartoons. Now this is a book that I can’t review impartially …