A big Peanuts reprint

When I showed off the upcoming Franken-Snoopy items from Hallmark yesterday, I left one out, and it’s a big one — 3000 square inches, to be precise.

This blanket is a 50″x60″ reprint of the March 17, 1964 Peanuts strip. I hope they don’t start reprinting all the Sundays like this, I won’t have room for thousands of these….

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You could’ve been in Peanuts

I just ran across this offer from 1987 where you could create a Christmas greeting strip featuring a friend’s name in it. The art is somewhat reworked from the December 2, 1982 strip. 40 SHARES Share Tweet this thing Follow the AAUGH Blog

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The first Peanuts ads?

Yesterday, while searching for something else utterly un-Peanuts related, I stumbled across an ad campaign that I don’t think I’d ever heard of before. A series of eight ads for Connecticut Blue Cross ran in newspapers during 1958. By 1958, Peanuts had been used in various commercial ways, like Peanuts …

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Yes, I got the bloody t-shirt!

The American Red Cross contacts me all the time, with phone calls and emails and the like, asking if I’m ready to give blood again. I donate a pint with reasonable regularity. But this month has been a little nuts, because, while they often have some little thank you gift …