Nat’s Most ADJECTIVE Comics
Folks have asked me to mention my own, non-Peanuts projects on this blog, so here’s the latest little oddity: The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever! is a creative comics game in book form. I’ve taken some tales from classic romance comic books and reworked the dialog with blanks calling for …
Be My Exclusive Valentine, Charlie Brown
Peanuts books sometimes leak out in odd places (I still have not been able to locate The Big Book of Peanuts anywhere but Costco, for example, and for those who have been asking, even they seem to be out of it now). If alert AAUGH Blog supporter Scott hadn’t called …
RIP Morrie Turner
Various sources are reporting the death of Morrie Turner, creator of the comic strip “Wee Pals”, at the age of 90. Turner was the Jackie Robinson of the newspaper strip field in multiple ways, getting a national syndication deal at a time when no other African-American had one, and landing …
Get your dog license
Hey, fellow Californians! You can now order the genuine state license plate with Snoopy for your car. (Dadgummit, someone already owns “AAUGH”.)
A plethora of Peanuts kids books coming. Maybe two pelthorae
Simon & Schuster, who for years put out Peanuts kids books (adaptations of animation, original storybooks, and so forth) under their Little Simon imprint, are jumping back on that wagon again, and not in a small way. This time, they’ve been named as the “master licensee” for Peanuts children’s books, …
Pacing the Peanuts comics book stories
On the Peanuts comic book stories I’ve written, I’ve tried to make them, well, as Peanutsy as possible. I may want the individual gags to feel fresh, like you haven’t heard them before, but the experience of reading them should ideally feel like you are experiencing more of what you’ve …
What am I going to do with two Women’s Worlds?
I don’t yet have every Peanuts book, not even within the parameters of US non-coloring books. I know I have some holes in the Hallmark collection; they put out a lot of little hardcovers meant to be used as greeting cards and small gifts during the 1970s, and I suspect …
Preview of Peanuts 15
ComicVine has up a preview of issue 15 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic, which hits better comic book stores next Wednesday. I’ve got two stories in this issue, although they aren’t part of the preview. Tell your stock car-loving friends to pick this one up, as the lead story is… …
Four decade old Christmas wishes
Today, the mailman brought another addition to the AAUGH.com reference library, 1973’s Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas!!. This is basically a hardcover greeting card made up of 11 two-page spreads (for you book formatting nerds, yes, they used the endpapers to achieve this), telling a little tale of Charlie …
Cartoon Dogfight!
If you’re in the insurance business, and want to battle against MetLife and their vast success with a popular cartoon dog, how do you go toe-to-toe with them? That’s right, license your own cartoon dog, one with a similar name, and launch your own ad! (And yes, this ad that …