The comics in Peanuts
Comic shop manager Mike Sterling closely examines the comics rack in an early Peanuts strip and tells you if what they’re selling actually exists.
Remember: Unseen Peanuts tomorrow
Just a reminder that tomorrow (Saturday, May 5th) is Free Comic Book Day. The press has really been picking up on Unseen Peanuts, so while there are a lot of copies of it out there, many folks will be looking for it. So don’t dally! (And don’t overlook the other …
A Look at the Unseen Peanuts – plus Nat in San Diego
Lest you think Fantagraphics has no love for the Peanuts book collector nerds among us, let me show you the real cover (as opposed to the original preview cover) of The Unseen Peanuts, which will be available for free on Free Comic Book Day (Saturday, May 5th) at many, many …
New Peanuts special airs Monday
Sorry to give you all such short warning, but… Monday night in the United States will be the first airing of He’s a Bully, Charlie Brown, the latest Peanuts animated special and the last one that Schulz himself worked on. This is based on the storyline where Rerun loses his …
Peanuts in San Francisco
Those Peanuts fans who live in the San Francisco Bay area can count them selves doubly lucky. Not only are they within driving distance of the Schulz Museum, they are also near the Cartoon Art Museum, which is about to put up a Peanuts exhibit. Opening next Friday, November 24th, …
Jean Schulz on The Great Pumpkin
The Deseret News (Salt Lake City) has this little article on the Great Pumpkin special (which has already aired in the U.S. this year, sorry for not giving you folks a heads up.) It’s just a little piece that reflects on how the show has been embraced by generations, and …
Snoopy video game on the way
The folk making the new Snoopy vs. the Red Baron video game have been sending us press materials, asking if the AAUGH Blog wantd to interview the development team, things like that. That’s outside the standard realm of this blog, of course. But it all got me to thinking. The …
new Peanuts cartoon permiere
For those of you in the Santa Rosa, California area, or obsessive Peanuts animation fans from other areas: the new Peanuts special Bully (the last one Schulz worked on, about playing marbles) will have its world premiere at the Schulz Museum on Saturday, October 21. During the day, they’ll be …
That Schulz/Mauldin collaboration
Whenever someone says that no one besides Schulz drew the Peanuts newspaper strip, some nitpicky fan like myself is apt to add a caveat about the 1998 Veterans Day strip, signed “Schulz and my hero Bill Mauldin”, in which Snoopy meets Mauldin’s classic wartime characters Willie & Joe, favorites of …
Snoopy projects leaflet
One of the cool things about being the AAUGH.com guy is that sometimes people find something and send it to you. For example, AAUGH Blog reader Scott in Michigan came across 3 Snoopy Projects, a full color trifold leaflet being distributed by Joann fabric shops last holiday season. This leaflet, …