Weekend Peanuts events
First, let me quickly note that AAUGH Blog reader Naomi tells me that where she is in Northern California, and possibly elsewhere, the Saturday showings of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Valentine will be pushed back from Saturday to Sunday, due to NBA play. Folks in …
The Schulz bowling book is available
A while back I let you know that I was putting together a small book of Schulz cartoons about bowling… and now it’s available! It’s a thin little thing, 52 pages, a few dozen cartoons, and it’s nothing that the Schulz completist needs (all of the cartoons are already in …
What Nat’s been working on
That’s a piece of the pencil art for a three page story entitled “Bank Notes” which will be showing up in issue 7 of the Peanuts comic book, due out in April. The art is by Stephanie Gladden, who I’ve wanted to work with for a long long time now. …
Valentina’s Day is coming
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Valentine air on ABC on Saturday starting at 8 PM in most time zones, 7 PM for you Central Time freaks.
Planning ahead
Well, if you’re reading this, we’ve made it through Groundhog’s Day, and we aren’t trapped in an infinite loop. Whew! And that means that we’re all free to start planning for future holidays, now that they are likely to happen. To that end, you can order your Peanuts Advent Calendar …
Heard at the movies
Last night I went to see One Night Stand, one of those one-night-only-in-cinemas film events. In this case, it was a documentary on a one-night-only-in-a-legitimate-theater event, the 24 Hour Musicals. This would be a musical version of the 24 hour play… in other words, this is short plays that are …
Bunch of book notes
Coming in August are two more books in the Running Press Kids inspirational “Be” series, Be Thankful and Be Friends. Now shipping are the pink-covered edition of Love Is Walking Hand In Hand and the audio-button edition of It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. And at the moment, remaindered copies …
More on the Sunday Peanuts collections
The title of the series is Peanuts Every Sunday. This will, of course, justify the existence of the AAUGH.com Collectors Guide, as there already is a book of that title, a black-and-white collection of Sunday strips from 1958 through 1961. The books are 12.75″ by 10″, so the strips should …
Color Sunday books coming
As I’ve occasionally noted, working professionally in Peanuts sometimes means hearing about upcoming projects before they’re ready to be announced. This is one of those cases, and I’m glad that the news is finally coming out elsewhere so I can mention it. Starting this fall, Fantagraphics will launch a 10-book …
If not Snoopy
After my post the other day mentioned that Snoopy was Schulz’s second choice for the character’s name, I got email asking about what the first choice was and why it was changed. That’s a question I answered here on the blog several years ago.