Woof and chirp, BFFs

Coming in February is Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends Forever, a storybook. The paperback comes with two pages of stickers, the hardcover edition doesn’t, but both have the same thrilling cover image of Snoopy and Woodstock skateboarding, Snoopy with his safety helmet, Woodstock with his yarmulka!

(“Yarmulka”, also known as “kipah”, is the religious headwear of Jewish males. That’s right, the jokes here come with explanatory subtitles!)
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2025 in Peanuts

Happy New Year, all you AAUGH Blog Readers! 2025 has come, like it or not, and it brings with it the 75th anniversary of Peanuts! Now, we’ve seen at least some attempts to play off 0f the big anniversary year since at least last summer, more than a full year …

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …