Minor book notes

  • AAUGH Blog reader Steve points out that The Basics of Licensing uses Peanuts as an example several times in the book. Peanuts and licensing – what will they think of next?
  • Those of you still looking for a copy of the new Peanuts comic book can find them through third-party sellers on Amazon, although shipping will pretty much double the price. On the other hand, the price on the upcoming book collection of the issues is down to under nine-and-a-half bucks at the moment, and will have free shipping if you make it part of a qualified $25 order or if you have Amazon Prime. You may want to preorder now to lock in that low price.
  • The new Wendy’s Kids Meal kids-under-three book is Wendy Loves Colors. No sign of Peanuts anywhere. >sniff< End of an era, it is…
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Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

There’s been a little editing back-and-forth over at Wikipedia about what is put in the “nationality” field for the various Peanuts kids. Thing is, in what is considered absolute canon — the strip itself — this question is never actually answered. Most of the time that you see the word …

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Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you. Share the news!

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On the four panel status

For more than the first three decades of Peanuts, the daily strip was always four panels… well, no, that’s not quite 100% true, as I think of the August 31, 1954 daily strip of Patty jumping rope, but even that had panel breaks at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks …