Charlie Brown’s America goes soft

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Coming in December is a paperback edition of Blake Scott Bell’s Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. I reviewed the hardcover when it came out in 2021, and that positive recommendation still stands.

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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 …