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 …

I sat down to write a nice, long something on the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, because it’s a 75th anniversary, because this is the official marking of Peanuts being a cultural presence after the end of the strip for half as long as the strip was being made, and because …

Your favorite AAUGH Blogger spent a couple nights this week in lovely Las Vegas, the town that demonstrates what humankind can achieve if we don’t stop and say “should we? Really?” I was there on business, but as the business was attending the Las Vegas Souvenir Convention, the leading tchotchke …