Upcoming releases

Schulz Geburtstag

Coming in October is Der Schöpfer der Peanuts – Zum 100. Geburtstag von Charles M. Schulz, a German book celebrating Schulz’s centennial (which is actually the following month, but you gotta have books on the shelves before the event.) I don’t expect that any of you will be buying it …

Upcoming releases

Boxing season

While every year is a good one for people who collect Peanuts books, this one looks to be a particularly prime one for people who collect not so much the books, but the boxes they come in. For example, publisher Weldon Owen has scheduled a September release for a boxed …

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Harder to find Peanuts media

I was in Costco today and I espied a Peanuts book… one which hadn’t been there just a few days ago when I was last there, yet one that they seemed down to their last copy of. (Perhaps there was another case of them stashed below the table, I don’t …

Animated Peanuts

It’s a small thing in It’s The Small Things

I realize I should probably apologize for the lack of postings — when I realized that the posting before this was “it’s only a couple weeks to the next Peanuts special” and this posting is “well, I’ve watched the special a couple days after it’s release and…”, that proves a …

Animated Peanuts

New special just a couple weeks away

Here’s the trailer for It’s The Small Things, Charlie Brown, the new ecology-themed special coming to Apple TV+ an April 15.

Animated Peanuts

What is the title of Charlie Brown All-Stars?

Some of you may recall my frustration over the varying punctuation that has been used in presenting the title of Snoopy, Come Home. The 1966 TV special about baseball has much the same problem (if to a lesser degree, arguably), and it has been there from the very beginning. The …

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Li’ l Archies

In the odd field of comics “variant” covers is the subfield of “store variants”, where a comics retailer will pay thousands of dollars to have a unique cover version of a comic available only through them. AAUGH Blog Reader John let me know that retailer Stadium Comics is now offering …

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How to Draw Cartoons

The latest book I’ve issued with my publishing hat on is a book that has a Schulz link… even though it came out when he was three years old. lHow To Draw Cartoons is a guidebook created by cartoonist Clare Briggs,  one of the comic strip powerhouse of the day …

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Peenutz bookz ov the vuture!

I’m currently working on my MocBook Pro, but 4 ov the letter keyz rn’t working, zo thiz my zeem u bit weirt. The big now-you-cn-preorter-it newz iz the ultimete volume ov Peenutz every Zunty, zo you will now meybe get every Peenutz Zunyt ztrip in color. November. 4 you who …

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Low density biography

I’ve got some catching up to do for the blog… and as so often happens, I seem to be doing it in what programmers called LIFO order — last in, first out. That’s what happens when you take the thing off the top of the stack you’ve been building, instead …