Brick-lovin’ Peanuts fans rejoice!

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AAUGHfriend Torsten covered the recent Toy Fair, including a large line of Peanuts pseudoLegos! Go read!

While wandering every aisle of ToyFair, I spied this display: What the…?!  Peanuts?! Construction sets? At first, I thought it might be counterfeit, as the box design and quality was a bit ch…

Source: Toy Fair 2017: Peanuts Construction Sets? From China!

Some of them seem to be odd choices…

…but at least this time Lucy doesn’t get a lemonade stand, as she did in the movie-linked brick line!

Go read the article for many more pics and details!

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The real Linus’s real cartooning

Like many Peanuts fans, I knew that the character of Linus was named after Linus Maurer, who worked at Art Instruction alongside Schulz. Like seemingly fewer fans, I knew that Maurer himself had been a syndicated cartoonist… but for some reason I never saw any of his strip before today. …

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Campaign Peanuts redux

I don’t normally just repost my blog entries… but this one seems as relevant now as when I first posted it in 2019. Only the word “many” seems dated. Of the many presidential candidates, I think Schulz only mentioned one in Peanuts. which isn’t to say that you can’t find …

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I suspect that’s not Schulz

The only thing I have to say about this ad from 1967 is “no”.   40 SHARES Share Tweet this thing Follow the AAUGH Blog