It’s a Golf Book, Charlie Brown

It’s Par for the Course, Charlie Brown, a hardcover collection of golf-themed Peanuts strips, is now shipping.

And while I have you, I might as well point out that I’ve been improving the look of AAUGH.com a bit. The ugly menus on the left of each page are now less ugly, and the latest headlines from the AAUGH blog are now on each page (if you’re using a Javascript-enabled web browser. Okay, it really doesn’t matter to you folks. But I take pointless pride in such things. More improvements to come. (Now excuse me, I’ve got to go work on implementing some of the same changes for my 24 Hour Comics Day site.)

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Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

There’s been a little editing back-and-forth over at Wikipedia about what is put in the “nationality” field for the various Peanuts kids. Thing is, in what is considered absolute canon — the strip itself — this question is never actually answered. Most of the time that you see the word …

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Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you. Share the news!

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On the four panel status

For more than the first three decades of Peanuts, the daily strip was always four panels… well, no, that’s not quite 100% true, as I think of the August 31, 1954 daily strip of Patty jumping rope, but even that had panel breaks at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks …