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I just got my author’s copies of issue 16 of the Peanuts comic book, published by Kaboom! My contribution is a mere three pager, but I am quite happy with what Robert Pope did with the art (and Lisa Moore’s colors are quite kickin’!) This should be landing in your friendly local comic book store next Wednesday. (And it looks like they finished their run of “first appearance” alternate covers with issue 12, which should make life a little simpler on all the completists out there.)

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Peanuts Origami

A recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is スヌーピー折り紙, a book of Peanuts origami projects. However, achieving hte results they show takes more than folding and connecting pieces of paper, as they want you to add faces and other markings to the pieces, which means you’ll have channel your …

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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 …