The difference between enjoyment and respect
Enjoying a creative work and being respectful to the talented folks who created it are two different things, and that conflict shows up a lot these days. It shows up in all forms of intellectual property abuse… which in this Internet age most obviously includes piracy of music and movies …
Free Peanuts comic book
Coming up this Saturday is one of the greatest holidays on the calendar – Free Comic Book Day! Just think about those words; is there any one of them not to like? And to make it all the better, this time there’s a free Peanuts comic book to be …
First look at the next A Charlie Brown Christmas book edition
Christmas may only last twelve days, but our coverage of book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas goes all year long! The next one coming up is a booklet that will come with a little A Charlie Brown Christmas snow globe. This ships in September, but you can preorder it …
Quick notes
I stumbled across this Mo Willems doodles of his Gerald & Piggie characters as Charlie Brown and Lucy. We here at the AAUGH Blog are big fans of Willems’s serieses of Pigeon (the first one may be the finest comic book yet this century), Elephant & Piggie, and Knuffle Bunny… …
Preorder the Art of Peanuts Animation now
At the moment, you can preorder The Art And Making of Peanuts Animation for $20.83, which is a pretty steep discount for a $40 book… and remember that if the price goes down at any time between now and when the book ships this fall, you’ll get that lower price. …
Easter Beagle sound button cover
I love writing headlines that sound like they came from a random word generator. Anyway, here is the cover for the next edition of the It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown adaptation, this one with buttons to push for sound and music. Preorder it now, get it next January, in …
Back from the Festival
I had a good time at the L.A. Times Festival of Books – really, I was showing people books and taking people’s money, and those are both things I love to do. I’d like to thank everyone who stopped by – oh, and AAUGH Blog reader Pat? I think I …
a blog post with a special guest appearance
Well, day one of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is over. Things are going well. And I sold one copy of The Peanuts Collection to a very special guest: Recognize that boy? No? Of course you wouldn’t. But if he spoke, you might. Young Gabe is the current …
Remember to stop by at LA Book Fest
A final reminder that I will be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the USC campus tomorrow and Sunday, in booth 860 (the CAPS booth). Stop by, say hi. I’ll have lots of books – plenty of copies of The Peanuts Collection (if you don’t have that), …
A pinker kind of Peanuts love
Cider Mill Press, which has already reprinted in the 1960s Peanuts book Love is Walking Hand in Hand, so doing it again… and upping the love intensity! That’s right! If the preview image is correct, you will have a Valentine’s Dayish color scheme, instead of the old version, which invoked …