Snoopy and the illusion of authorial expertise
The book coming in the next few days to a Wendy’s Kid-Under-3 Meal near you (and, I hope, near me), My Favorite Colors, is not listed as being by Schulz. Rather, it’s by Snoopy himself. In most cases, this would merely be a curiosity, but in this case, it’s problematic. …
Spellcheck doesn’t work too well with names
Yes, yes, it’s one thing to go after big professional publishers, but it’s cheap to go after some little guy trying to exploit the public domain and the creative commons for their imperfections. What can I say, I’m cheap. And thus I’ll point out that Mr. Schultz-with-a-T has popped up …
Worse than the worst Schulz biography
So in the wake of recent posts, I’ve been discussing Bad Schulz Biographies with several people, and in a couple instances the topic led to a book I’ve discussed earlier – there’s a company that packages Wikipedia articles (all readable for free) into print-on-demand books (something that Wikipedia will do …
An early worst Schulz biography
When I reviewed the new worst Schulz biography – the one which misspells his name on the cover — I linked to some previous reviews of bad Schulz biographies designed to fill the shelves of school libraries. In doing so, I realize that my review of one such biography which …
The new worst Schulz biography
Those of you who have been reading for along time may recall that I love to pull apart the short Schulz biographies that are written as part of bulk biography sets for school libraries. They often make up for their short, shallow nature by adding factual inaccuracies or laughably bad …
Schulz on Wash Tubbs
If you look over at the AAUGH.com Guide’s page to books for which Schulz did introductions and illustrations, you’ll find he did a lot of them over the years. It’s not because he was a particularly masterful writer of such things – he’s not bad, but nothing impressive – but …
Turkish Snoopy
The AAUGH.com Reference Library now has the 1983 Turkish translation of 1958’s Snoopy, an early all-Snoopy strip collection. Now, this may be released on the 25th anniversary of its original release, but this abridged (3/4s the length) version is no fancy memorial edition. In fact, it’s rarely poorly produced, with …
Snoopy’s friends are a bird and a book
As I’ve said before, I’m not a Peanuts collector, I’m a Peanuts book collector. But sometimes “Peanuts” and “book” collide in non-standard ways – witness this tiny pin just sent me from Malaysia:
But maybe there’s nothing new under the sun?
“But WAIT!” I hear you cry. “If Sweet Dreams, Snoopy is just a shortening of the Snoopy’s Doghouse Library book of the same name, perhaps other Wendy’s Kid’s Meal books are just shortenings of books from that esteemed library!” First off, you’re becoming obsessed. I can hear your voices screaming …
A vital correction regarding Sweet Dreams, Snoopy
Last posting, I encouraged you not to confuse the different books entitled Sweet Dreams, Snoopy or some variant thereof. However, now that I have the new Wendy’s Kid’s Meal board book Sweet Dreams, Snoopy in my little Frosty-stained mitts, I can give you free rein to go ahead and confuse …