Peanuts in American Heritage

The latest issue of American Heritage is now out – well, okay, that’s a stupid thing to say – the latest issue is always out, since whatever the most recent issue out is is always the latest.

Let me start again: the Fall 2010 issue of American Heritage is now out (Volume 60, issue 3, for those who keep count that way), and it’s got an article on Peanuts. Well, to be accurate, it has 6 pages of excerpts from my new book The Peanuts Collection, including selections of text and images (no interactive items, of course). And on the cover, there’s a small picture of Snoopy in the upper right, and down in the lower left the words “Peanuts at 60”, and below that, the credit “Nat Gertler”. Yes, I’ve got my name on the cover of a significant national magazine for the first time. Oh, I used to think that I was always getting my name on the cover of TV Guide, but my wife had to point out that address labels don’t count….

Share
Tweet this thing
Follow the AAUGH Blog
Schulz/Peanuts news
Teen Peanuts characters in teen hands

Performed entertainment depicting the Peanuts characters aged up is a genre all its own. While there have been movies like (insert name of indy film that I just stumbled upon a few years back and now can neither recall the name of nor find any reference to), it’s been more …

Schulz/Peanuts news
25 years

Today is 25 years since Charles Schulz passed away. Tomorrow is 25 years since the final Peanuts strip ran. And yet, Peanuts is far from gone. The material is more available than it was when the strip was actually being created, with the entire run collected into books and available …

Nat news
The AAUGH Blogger, [North] Hollywood Consultant

Hello from out here in fire country! There’s a fire in town and we’re still under red-flag warnings for more, but rain is likely this weekend and that should ease things quite a bit. Anyway, amidst all the various forms of confligration at the moment, I have agreed to be …