Fangs!
Those old Peanuts comics from the 1950s and ’60s often had things that you would not find in the strip, as witness this image.
free A Charlie Brown Christmas ebook
AAUGH Blog reader Jason points out that the iTunes bookstore currently has a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas for free! This is a digital presentation of that adaptation with Tom Brannon art that Running Press has been reusing repeatedly in recent years, and is not the cool interactive …
Peanuts for teachers, and other humans
I was doing my usual work searching out Peanuts books for us all to marvel at when I hit something I hadn’t stumbled across before: licensed Peanuts material meant for teachers and classrooms. While it’s not likely that those of us outside of school will need, say, a lesson plan …
Useful news if you program your DVR seven years in advance
ABC has paid to keep their rights to the key Peanuts specials until 2020.
Another Peanuts Christmas book… and it’s my fault
As some of you may recall, last year saw the publication of the book Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, which reprinted two Peanuts stories that had appeared in women’s magazines in the 1960s. This was a book that I had thought up, and that I had taken to the publisher Fantagraphics …
A thing that no longer exists, and a thing that will not exist
As predicted, that unlicensed Charlie Brown and Snoopy coloring book that I blogged about the other day has been yanked from Amazon and other sites. However, the other works of Mrs. Beatrice Harrison remain available. After five straight years of Hallmark putting out a new book editions of A Charlie …
Conservative Peanuts are Coming
Regnery Publishing has announced that they will be coming out with a series of a dozen Peanuts books aimed at the 4-8 year old set, intended to teach American history and “what makes America strong”. The first three books are slated for next fall, coming out under their Little Patriot …
Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name
Some folks talk about trademark as a way big, evil corporations “steal language” to keep the little guy from getting ahead. Actually, trademark legally exists to protect the little guy, the consumer, by letting them know that an item that bears a trademark meets the standards of the company that …
Be Covers
They’ve released covers for two upcoming volumes in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series, Be Active and Be Unique. Both ship in April, and are available for preorder now.
Now that’s audacious
I stumbled across this Amazon listing for a print-on-demand Charlie Brown and Snoopy coloring book. Seemed a little odd for a Peanuts coloring book to be published that way. After all, there are plenty of Peanuts coloring books published through traditional means, so it doesn’t need the print-on-demand advantage in …