I just stumbled across the short parody mashup story Snoopy is a Time Lord by William Hrdina, crossing the TV special “You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown” with the world of Doctor Who (and not, I think we can assume, authorized by anyone). Now, usually I might not post about a small-time parody …

For those of you certain that every possible Peanuts book had already come out, and that no new books were possible for next year, you can relax. The world is not about to end…. because it has already been announced that 65 Years of Snoopy, a 196 page paperback, will be …

Coming tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) to better comic book stores is issue 18 of the Peanuts comic book. This issue has (in addition to the stories “Dance Craze” and “Blind as  a Bat” and a reprint of a four-daily-strip baseball sequence arranged in the centerfold so it can be removed …

Now that you can order some Japanese books through the US Amazon, it makes things so much easier to get such books. Well, some of them. Dadgummit, you can’t get that Japanese adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas that way. But here’s some things you can get; click on the cover to get …

Now shipping: Build-Your-Own Snoopy and Woodstock!: Punch-out and Construct Your Own Desktop Peanuts Companions! (at least, that’s what they call it at Amazon.)

After having taken a break from issuing rarer alternative covers for each issue of their Peanuts comic book, Kaboom has returned to the practice with the most recent issue, #17. Once again, they are doing “first appearance” covers, but starting with this one, it’s the first appearance of a phrase. …

Following the example of The Gospel According to Peanuts, there have been a number of essay books over the years that have used Peanuts strips as a launching point for certain topics, most often religious. In 1981, Warner Press (the publishing arm of The Church Of God, which Schulz was very involved …

I was putting together an upcoming post on ordering Japanese Peanuts books through Amazon US, when I discovered… well, remember when I mentioned how I was looking forward to the upcoming “Scanimation” book, with images that animate as you move the page? It looks like in Japan they already have …

I just got to read the article “Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Religion, and the Conventions of the Television Genre“, which appears in the current issue of The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Written by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind (currently of Washington And Lee University), this …

I’ve run into a few books lately about other dogs named Snoopy… which is hardly anything new, as there were books about dogs named Snoopy before there was Peanuts. But this is a first, I think. It’s by Snoopy. And he’s not a dog… (Note that the story is “as told …