Charlie Brown cover
This is the announced cover for next March’s collection of stories from the recent Peanuts comic book series. The book has been announced as “Charles M. Schulz’ Charlie Brown,” although this cover does not reflect that possessive. Also curious: the product details at Amazon list includes: Publisher: KaBOOM!; Not for Online …
Cover for the new George Orwell/Charles Schulz classic
Oooh, I like this cover for the upcoming storybook You’re A Big Brother, Charlie Brown! Ships in February.
Anyone have this Snoopy-covered Pebble Beach golf program
Longshot: does anyone have a copy of the golf program shown here? (I only need access to this particular year – don’t bother telling me about other years, I’ve already got ’em!) If so, email me at nat@aaugh.com – thanks!
Great Grandpumpkins
I got four new Peanuts books in the mail this week. You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown! is a Ready-to-Read Level Two book that adapts parts of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, focusing on the Charlie Brown portions. The adaptation is written by Maggie Tesla and drawn by Robert Pope, …
Shoe smooch
I got a close-up look at a few pairs of the Peanuts shoes from Vanns that I posted about earlier. For a moment there, I thought Franklin was recoiling in surprise because Sally was moving in for a kiss. Then I realized that that pink dot wasn’t a highlight circle, …
Oh, so that’s whose dog Snoopy is!
During my brief journey to Comic-Con this weekend, I didn’t get a chance to talk to any of the Boom! Studio folks and figure out what their Peanuts plans are. However, it looks like those plans start this year, not next, as a November 2017 release date has now been …
Fashion bags
I stopped by the pop-up Snoopy & Belle In Fashion store at 266 Fifth, near the San Diego Comic-Con. It’s a display of dozens of the Snoopy and Belle figures draped by famous design houses, with special tote bags and pins for sale.
At the Peanuts booth
Despite not being announced on the San Diego Comic-Con website, the Peanuts booth does have exclusive t-shirts. And do you have to wait in line to get one? Well, actually, you can’t. You have to wait to wait in line! Turns out, people like Peanuts stuff!
Political footballs
I find it interesting how certain analogies find a good home in the culture, as if up until then the culture had a hole, that there was some vital aspect of life that was just waiting for something to describe it. Lucy pulling the football away is one of those …
Back in my day, we spelled it “fork”
AAUGH Blog reader John pointed out this announcement of yet another home video release of the three perennial Peanuts specials (Christmas, Great Pumpkin, and Thanksgiving). While the announced advantage of this release is that it has remastered 4K editions, let’s face it, that’s far more resolution than these things were ever intended for or …