More Peanuts in Space
In The Peanuts Collection, I discussed various ways in which the Peanuts characters have been in space, such as the Snoopy and Charlie Brown modules, and the packets of Silver Snoopy pins that have been sent on each mission. But there’s one way which I missed. On today’s broadcast of …
Binary tons of digital Peanuts books
As I’ve mentioned here earlier, a number of Peanuts books have been showing up in digital formats. One of my elves has just slipped me the entire plan for books being released through iVerse for the rest of the year, readable on your iPad and similar devices. Each month brings …
The K Chronicles on the Impact of Peanuts books
Keith Knight does a nice cartoon about the effect of Peanuts books in his household.
Straight to you from Snoopy Sounds Records! …
Some of Ridge Room’s cool Peanuts design work, this for some Japanese bedsheets. I want these records!
New Peanuts animation coming… somewhere
AAUGH Blog reader Fred points out that word is going ’round that a Japanese animation studio called Madhouse has been cleared to produce new Peanuts animation, and that they already have a short out… somewhere. (Really – they say “The short is released somewhere in Tokyo. If you’re interested, please …
Snoopyho!
For some reason, this cover for a Czech collection is making me happy at the moment. Often, the limited-color foreign covers look quite charming. Sure would like to get this one for the AAUGH.com Reference Library!
Battling adaptations
Now that we can see the cover for the upcoming book It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: With Sound and Music, it’s clear that they’re doing something which I thought they might. Is this book the general market version of Hallmark’s recent sound button book of the same special? Well, …
Twelve years later
The final new Peanuts strip ran in papers twelve years ago today, and looking around, it’s hard to say that it’s lost any ground as a centerpiece of our culture. Just seeing a popular website using the Lucy-and-the-football analogy for what may be happening with a piece of legislation, or …
Shouldn’t that be Sound -Including- Music
Running Press has announced that August will bring us the book It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: With Sound and Music. This book (which is now available for preorder, so go do so!) is presumably the general market version of last year’s Hallmark-only release, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: …
Valentine specials 2012
Tonight on ABC, at the start of prime time, it’s a Peanuts double-feature: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, and A Charlie Brown Valentine. And speaking of animated Peanuts, the next DVD release is now preorderable. Happiness is Peanuts: Team Peanuts features the TV special Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown, …