Superimposed Snoopys

Sometimes looking at a bunch of Peanuts book covers in a row will raise questions… and answers.

Question: Why does Snoopy look like he’s holding something in his right paw on this cover for a book coming out next March?

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Answer: See this book, coming out in January!

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And lest you think they are merely similar shots (there are, after all, many dancing Snoopy images, including one on the cover of my own upcoming book, The Snoopy Treasures), here is the first image superimposed over the second one with 50% transparency.

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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 …

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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 …

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …