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I’ve been a little light on Peanuts book news lately – there’s some things coming in the mail, but folks aren’t making a lot of new announcements during the holiday season. (Plus, things get hectic here around this time.)

But making me happy at the moment is an invite I got to a Christmas party for a group of comics-makers that I belong to, which included the piece of art you see here, where cartoonist Aidan Casserly has drawn some of the club members into a classic scene. That’s Aidan himself at top doing the Shermy; some folks here whose work you might recognize are Bill Morrison taking Pig-Pen’s place on the bass (he’s been a key man at the Simpsons comic book line, and the Disneyheads in my audience may be familiar with the notorious Little Mermaid VHS box he drew), and down there on guitar is a beaglefied version of Sergio Aragones, familiar to half a century of Mad Magazine readers as the guy who does those little cartoons along the edges of other things (and, of course, so much more!) And dead center is yours truly, the AAUGH Blogger doing the Violet dance. It is an honor.

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Spot the Dog

I publish things. I also research things. And really, the two efforts are often one and the same: I research stuff and find that it’s worth publishing; I publish stuff and in the process I’m doing research. That all just happened for me with a syndicated comics panel called “Spot” …

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Meet Peanuts!

One of the complaints that Schulz had about his strip being named Peanuts against his wishes is that it lead some people to think that one of the characters in the strip was named “Peanuts.” That was brought to mind when I read this particular strip in a book that …

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Be More Charlie Brown impends

I have now received my box of author’s copies of Be More Charlie Brown, which will be officially released next week. This light-hearted self-help book is a follow-up to my earlier (and still available) volume, Be More Snoopy. As I always do with my new Peanuts-related hardcovers, I’m willing to send …