The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog reader Mark:

Mark (not Evanier) pointed out that this is making the claim that Woodstock first appeared in 1951. And yes, it looks like People is making that claim, with their header “Woodstock Flies In” and their caption of “A spread in which Woodstock appears.” However, let’s be clear, it’s only people that’s making that claim; the text makes it quite clear that the bird seen is not Woodstock. Evanier generally knows what he’s talking about; People, on the other hand… (to be fair, it’s outside their expertise. This isn’t Birds.) So this is not a real new argument in the “when did Woodstock first appear” debate (which is now, to be fair, largely settled.)

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