You don’t know how much I wish this were real.

Sick and tired of people trying to sell bootleg Peanuts books on Amazon by listing someone besides Charles M. Schulz as the author? Sure you are, and I’ve long since stopped talking about it. But now I see that someone is trying to balance matters!

Shot from an Amazon page for Godzilla Coloring Books For Kids Ages 8-12: Edition 2023 Paperback – March 17, 2023 by Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Yes siree, it’s a bootleg Godzilla coloring book… excuse me, a bootleg Godzilla coloring books… by Charles M. Schulz himself, made available earlier this month.

And I’m releasing this on April Fools Day, I know… but there’s no fooling in this one.

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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! …