New releases

a new edition of Young Pillars

I note that a new edition of Young Pillars, the first collection of Schulz’s single panel cartoons for Youth magazine, has popped up on Amazon. Judging by the fact that it had no pre-order listing, that it has no cover image, that it has an odd price ($36.49), and that …

Upcoming releases

The next Wendy’s Kids Meal book

Yes, yes, I do manage to crank three posts out of each of these Wendy’s Kids Meal books. We call that efficient use of information. I also manage to make three meals out of each rotisserie chicken. Anyway, August 1st is the official release date for The World Famous Beagle …

Classic finds

Tip-Top from the Comic-Con

My one-day trip down to the San Diego Comic-Con was loud and crowded and unproductive and yet still worthwhile. I did stop by the Peanuts booth and got the free button of the day – they were all promoting Peanuts on social media sites, and weren’t as cool as the …

General

How the gang grows up

There are lots of comedic and intellectual attempts to show how the Peanuts characters age – and generally, they are faux comedic or faux intellectual. (I’d place “Riot On Cell Block P”, which can be read for free here or downloaded to your Kindle for 99 cents, into that latter …

Administrative

The AAUGH Blogger has a quest

As you know, I am sadly maniacal about print adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. I do have every one of the dozens of editions listed in my guide to A Charlie Brown Christmas books. But I have now verified that there is indeed one edition which I do not …

Discounts

Peanuts Collection for fifteen bucks

For whatever reason, the folks over at Bud Plant Art Books have copies of my book The Peanuts Collection for under $15. This is the slipcased hardcover with all the cool interactive items. If you’ve been holding off on getting this book, this seems like a good time to get …

Schulz/Peanuts news

Snoopy statues invade overseas

For those of you who are missing the days when creative Peanuts statues flooded first St. Paul and then Santa Rosa, it may be time to cash in your frequent flier miles on a trip to Portugal. Friday was the beginning of the Lisbon Snoopy Parade, with 20 statues going …

Schulz/Peanuts news

San Diego scavenger hunt

I missed one piece of Peanuts San Diego Comic-Connery; the first 200 people to stop by the Peanuts booth each day get a scavenger hunt card. Out of those, the first 50 to complete the hunt (which appears to involve stopping by the booths of various Peanuts licensees) gets a …

Schulz/Peanuts news

Peanuts at Comic-Con 2011

We’re just days away from the start of the annual madness that is the San Diego Comic-Con. This year, the only Peanuts-focused panel is Sunday’s “How to Draw Snoopy and his Friends”, where some of the folks who worked on Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (both the animated …

General

A signed sign

I was in Las Vegas yesterday, doing… wait, I think the laws of Las Vegas prohibit anyone from saying what they were doing in Las Vegas. Anyway, I was passing by a memorabilia shop, and the Charlie Brown zig-zag caught my eye. I looked up, and the zig-zag proved to …