Complete Peanuts cover

The World War I Flying Ace hits the cover of The Complete Peanuts: 1969 to 1970Complete Peanuts cover, which doesn’t ship until October (it’s not the next volume, it’s the one after that.) And as long as we’re looking at covers, here’s the one for that Peanuts Sudoku DigestPeanuts Sudoku Digest, with a bunch of strips and even more puzzles. Remember, if you preorder now, you not only lock in the current price, you’ll be shifted to any lower price that appears in the meantime… and in fact you’ll get an extra 5% discount to boot for preordering (a good reason to check out our list of upcoming books.) And you can cancel any time until the book is issued.

And as long as I have everyone here, let me give a little “hello” to all of the new folks. That post I did about Caucasian Franklin got blogged in a few key places, leading to a couple thousand extra visitors. People like the kinda weird stuff!

Upcoming releases
2025 in Peanuts

Happy New Year, all you AAUGH Blog Readers! 2025 has come, like it or not, and it brings with it the 75th anniversary of Peanuts! Now, we’ve seen at least some attempts to play off 0f the big anniversary year since at least last summer, more than a full year …

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …