Quick notes

  • Today would’ve been Schulz’s 91st birthday.
  • Tomorrow (Wednesday), the ABC Family cable network will air all four of the Peanuts animated theatrical films (although not in their original release order.) Their website says this runs 4 PM to 10 PM, but you may have to check your local time zone.
  • A new cover design has appeared for the upcoming Fantagraphics strip collection Batter Up, Charlie Brown!
  • There’s a new CD release of the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas. This one is called the Snoopy’s Doghouse edition, because the disc sleeves unfolds to make Snoopy’s doghouse, with some of the Peanuts kids there to stand in front of it. Ya can’t do that with an MP3!

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More books a-comin’ and some site news

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based …

Animated Peanuts
Christmas presents? Snoopy Presents!

Apple TV has announced another new Peanuts special, a Christmas special coming our way this Christmas season. I’m going to spare myself some effort and just drop down the relevant portions of their press release, so the editorialization you see is all theirs. Apple TV is making the season merry …

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It was a stormy Dark Knight…

Coming out in December is a facsimile edition of Detective Comics issue 500, the big thick issue-versary release from 1981. Detective Comics is a series that began in 1937, although it really picked up steam in 1939, when issue 27 introduced a little character called “The Batman”. Reaching issue 500 is an achievement …