Some online notes

  • My 5-year old daughter was playing her favorite online game Poptropica, and suddenly called me over  to show me they’ve added a “Great Pumpkin Island” to the game, with Linus. Looks like they’re going to be adding more stuff to it soon.
  • Those of you going to the actual blog website will find that each AAUGH blog post is now followed by a series of icons. These are to make it easy to share the post via Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blogger, Reddit, Digg, Bookface, Smashmouth, Pigpen, DuckDuckGoose, SquishMe, Mobster, Chuckleheads, Overly8, and TwitterlyTwo, among other social networking services. Spread the word!
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Schulz/Peanuts news
See some Schulz originals in Indiana

The Anderson Museum of Art in lovely (I’ll assume) Anderson, Indiana has an interesting exhibition coming up next month…. It focuses on artists from Indiana, and look at all the cool things it covers, There’s Garfield! And Baby Blues! Blondie! Marvin! But… there’s no Snoopy. What’s it doing on this …

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Peanuts v. Trump

The legal goings-on this week regarding Peanuts require a bit of a preface: while Peanuts Worldwide (or really Peanuts Holdings) owns Peanuts, they don’t own everything Peanuts. Lee Mendelson Film Productions has rights regarding the classic TV and film material. If I understand correctly (and that’s a real caveat, there are …

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Free comics and freaky musicals

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund‘s Jeff Trexler caught sight of this headline appearing to announce a very unlikely musical. And since I’m sending something out, let me note that Free Comic Book Day is coming up this Saturday. (Also, so is Comic Giveaway Day. This is the result of …