What happiness is, for the record
Once Schulz had established that “Happiness is a Warm Puppy”, many other folks decided to put down their own descriptors. The Beatles famously indicated that “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, and as we’ve covered here before, Johnny Carson opined that “Happiness is a Dry Martini”. But it wasn’t until just …
Starting the new year off right… with Christmas!
What better way to start off the new year of this blog with our favorite thing – a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas! I came back from my holiday travels to find the Walmart 50th anniversary A Charlie Brown Christmas CD set waiting for me. This is a …
Presents present themselves
You know, I was only joking in the last post when I suggested that readers might send me birthday presents at any time of year. However, one AAUGH Blog reader – John – sent me a present just the other day: these two Peanuts coloring books. And I was flipping …
Peanuts 29 Sneak Peek
Here are the opening pages from issue 20 of the KaBOOM! Peanuts comic book series, which will land in better comic book stores this Wednesday… which, by the way, would also be a good time to scour your comic shop for some last-minute Christmas gifts, and too-late Hannukah presents for your …
Linus’s shorthand.
Today, newspapers reran the December 22, 1968 Peanuts strip, in which Linus is doing shorthand, and I see people asking just what he’s saying. Luckily, a few years back, I asked someone who did shorthand. The first panel says “Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.” The last panel …
Have yourself a book-form Charlie Brown Christmas!
AAUGH Blog fan Bill just alerted me to this item you see pictured, a Walmart Exclusive 50th anniversary set of Charlie Brown Christmas. It’s got two CDs, four postcards (not just postcards, collectible postcards, we are told. They have not been collection-proofed! And looking at them, very non-Christmassy!) And what’s that over at the …
I’m gettin’ a Snoopy license plate! I’m gettin’ a Snoopy license plate!
The campaign for license plates with Snoopy on them to raise money for California museums has succeeded, selling the 7500 plates needed to put it into production! If you’re a Californian who has been holding out, you have just until Friday to go here! and order your plate and still get the …
Review: Nat’s First Peanuts ABC
I recently received Nat’s First Peanuts ABC: An Alphabet Adventure, a radical departure from standard Peanuts fare. After all, in most Peanuts books. Rather than relying solely on the existing base of Peanuts characters, this was introduces a new character – Nat – in the very first pages, as traditional characters …
Home renovations
Someone… well, a group of good folks… sent me a copy of the new edition of Home is On Top of a Dog House, part of a line of reprints of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy series of books. Now, I’d noticed that they’d done cover redesigns form the original, but I hadn’t …
Guess what film was nominated for a Golden Globe!
The Peanuts Movie has some tough competition for the Golden Globe in feature animation, up against the largely-loved Inside Out, as well as Animolisa, The Good Dinosaur, and the enjoyable Shaun the Sheep, but it’s in the running! It used to be that it was rare that you’d have two big animated films released in …