The AAUGH Blog

Mar07

Now shipping, Peanuts volume 2

by Nat on March 7, 2013 at 9:11 am

Now shipping, Peanuts Volume 2, which collects issues 1 through 4 of the second run of the current Peanuts comic books. As I type this, Amazon has the book for $7.90, which means that it costs less than the cover price of two issues. The cover you see on Amazon is not the actual cover (Boom! creates mockup cover for soliciting the bookstore markup before the cover for the trade is actually done, so they use the cover for one of the issues included.) The real cover is the cool Joe Cool cover seen here.

Mar05

This fall’s preorders

by Nat on March 5, 2013 at 12:38 pm

Posted In: Upcoming releases

Now available for preorder are The Complete Peanuts volume 20, the boxed set of volumes 19 and 20, and the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday, the larger color collections of just the Sunday strips. As always, I encourage ordering as soon as possible; Amazon’s preorder price guarantee promises that they’ll give you the lowest price that they set between now and the time it ships, and usually that means a significant savings.

Mar05

Make your house a museum

by Nat on March 5, 2013 at 10:28 am

Posted In: Schulz/Peanuts news

The Schulz Museum is selling off some interesting items, including display placards from past shows, as their It’s the Great Sale!.

Mar05

Peanuts, Quentin Tarantino style

by Nat on March 5, 2013 at 9:47 am

Posted In: Classic finds, Reviews

This genuine, official Peanuts strip may be the funniest one I’ve ever found in any Peanuts book:

As you probably figured out part-way through, this is not an official English language strip; this is the Swedish translation. I wrote about it in the then-AAUGH newsletter , when I’d just gotten a copy of 1970′s Snobben Och Hans Varld, a collection from 1970. Today, the Schulz Museum ran the original English version on Facebook. “Killar” is Swedish for “tickle”, and the “hi” in Swedish is translating “hee”. This strip shows part of the joy of delving into foreign editions – sometimes, you get the simple joy of Peanuts, sometimes you get these small joyous differences of the culture.

Mar04

Li’l Abner versus Li’l Folks

by Nat on March 4, 2013 at 9:31 am

Posted In: Now shipping

This invterview about a just-released biography of Li’l Abner creator Al Capp (and when one says a “warts and all” biography of Capp, believe me that “warts” is putting it nicely) includes as illustration three Abner Sunday strips from 1968 which I’d not seen before, in which Capp attempts to put his satirical screws to Schulz and the success of Peanuts. They aren’t actually funny, and some of the specific criticisms seem more than a mite odd coming from Capp as the interview notes (unrealistic dialog and commercially exploited both figure heavily into Capp’s own work, as the interview suggests), but I’d not seen them before and they are of at least curiosity value. (Abner was a very funny strip in its key period, but that had passed well before 1968.)

The biography being promoted is currently 44% off. Order here!