What am I going to do with two Women’s Worlds?

I don’t yet have every Peanuts book, not even within the parameters of US non-coloring books. I know I have some holes in the Hallmark collection; they put out a lot of little hardcovers meant to be used as greeting cards and small gifts during the 1970s, and I suspect there’s some that I haven’t even detected the existence of yet. Which is why it was easy for me to slip up, check the wrong list in my records, and place a bid in this eBay auction for a copy of the Hallmark minibook A Woman’s World, a book that I already have a copy of. Am I telling you this because I want to be an educational object lesson, showing you what harm you can do to yourself if you don’t pay attention? No, no, that would be too helpful! I’m doing this for totally selfish reasons; I’m hoping someone out in AAUGH Blogreaderland wants a copy of this book badly enough that they’ll outbid my ill-considered $10.10 bid for it! C’mon, you know you want it!

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A thing that might have been

In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth… and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported, they were floating the idea of …

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Charles’s Angel

In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named “Little Angel”… or, depending on the press release, “Little Good Guy”. The character appears in promotions for a few years. The reworks of him, which are …

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Up and down, up and down

AAUGH Blog reader D.D., who heads the fine blog The Daily Cartoonist (go check it out), put in the time to find an example of the one eight-panel Peanuts daily in vertically-stacked format, as I mentioned wanting to find in a previous post. Go take a gander at its verticalness! …