The AAUGH Blog Podcast: KaBOOM!’s Whitney Leopard interview

The AAUGH Blogger chats with Whitney Leopard about recent and upcoming new and reprint volumes of Peanuts material. (For those of you who could use a little translating of the inside-the-industry jargon, when she refers to an “OGN”, that’s Original Graphic Novel – i.e., a book of comics that hadn’t been previously serialized in some form.)

New releases
A pop-up shows up

Here Comes Charlie Brown!: A Peanuts Pop-up, Gene Kannenberg, Jr.’s adaptation of the very first Peanuts strip, is not the first Peanuts book to reprint only a single strip. There was at least one board book that did much the same thing. However, that board book was, at heart, a …

General

  As these two ads, from 1954 and 1961 respectively, show, Patty and Violet had a rather consistent relationship… living on slightly different planes, and not introducing themselves, but giving a name to each other. 40 SHARES Share Tweet this thing Follow the AAUGH Blog

Not That Charlie Brown
Those Other Charles Schulzes

Okay, so I search newspaper archives for unimportant things out of curiosity. And checking for pre-Sparky people named “Charles Schulz”, I found a fair amount, but the one which struck me was this obituary from 1900: It’s just the fact that this Charles Schulz had a son, Charles Schulz, who …