Peanuts shirts worth drawing blood over
The “free Snoopy shirt for donating blood” promotion that the American Red Cross did a while back worked gangbusters… so much so that they’re doing it again, only bigger. This time there are four different shirts with Woodstock, two of them also have Snoopy, and it’s a blind bag item. …
My favorite comics character is Charlie Brown
Homer Hoopee comic strip by Rand Taylor and Phil Berube, September 1953.
Big Fantagraphics sale and other Peanuts notes
One thing about the switch from the previous blog-by-mail system to the current one is that if there were multiple blog posts in a day, the old system would send a single digest email while the new one will send an email for each post. Not wanting to flood people’s …
Random little catch-up items
So many little things to catch up on. So much going on… and my life is so full (my son is heading off to college this week.) What can I cover? While Dolores goes unnamed in the A Summer Musical special, I am told that she is named in the Cantonese …
The AAUGH Blogger on Unpacking Peanuts
Two major sources of Peanuts commentary have collided. Unpacking Peanuts, which featured three cartoonists commenting on the entire run of the Peanuts newspaper strip, just dropped an issue with their latest guest star — me! Head here to find the series, or just look for Unpacking Peanuts in your favorite …
A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report
The animated special Peanuts: A Summer Musical is coming out on Friday, as discussed before. And yet here I am on Thursday, covering it. What sort of secret inside access did I have that let’s me do this? Easy, I live on the West Coast. It’s already Friday on the East …
The Essential Peanuts preview
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 …
Charlie Brown’s America goes soft
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.
Dolores CONFIRMED!
That is genuinely Dolores, the obscure Latina Peanuts character from the filmstrips, in the new special that releases this coming Friday. I’ve had it confirmed by the director of the special, who is half Latin himself. He indicates that she will not be the only character of such heritage in …
The power of the AAUGH Blog
Folks, I always want to thank you for following this blog, just because it makes me happy. But in this case, it did a lot of good for others as well. In the past year, you saw me discuss FOCO bobbleheads a few times. I made it clear that I’d …