Camp humor with Charlie Brown

Coming in May: It’s Off to Camp, Charlie Brown, a camp-themed strip collection in paperback from Ballantine Books. 160 pages with a cover price of $11.95 US.

Meanwhile, it’s calendar-buying season already, and you can get any of a number of Peanuts calendars.

  • The Peanuts Happiness Is wall calendar comes with a different Happiness Is saying for each month, plus a sheet of stickers!
  • A mini wall calendar for those with a little less space on their walls
  • The day-by-day calendar has another sheet and another Peanuts gag for every day of the year

In less than a week, a new display will be opening at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa: a display of 66 strips about everyone’s favorite toy pianist, Schroeder. The exhibit runs September 14th through January 16th.


If shopping at AAUGH.com seems to work a little differently now, well, you’re right. We finally got rid of that “click here” screen that used to appear whenever you click on a product name. It’s a small thing, but it should make placing your order that much smoother.

Upcoming releases
The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

Administrative
The AAUGH Blog: Now on Bluesky

I have now set up a Bluesky account for The AAUGH Blog — username @aaugh.com — which will automatically post a link to every new blog post here (or at least, every new one with a header image… which I’m taking advantage of here because the people following the account …

Upcoming releases
Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …