The AAUGH Blogger gets his white whale
Every collector has their white whale, that one thing they want which seems to elude them. For me, for years, it has been School Peanuts 1. It’s not just a Peanuts book that I didn’t have — there are still many of those from around the word. But it’s a …
RIP M. Thomas Inge
We are hearing of the passage of pop culture historian M. Thomas Inge at the age of 85. Among his dozens of books about comics, there were two of particular interest to the AAUGH Blog crowd: My Life with Charlie Brown (collecting Schulz’s writings) and Charles M. Schulz: Conversations (collecting …
Boldly Going Where No AAUGH Blogger Has Gone Before
I’ll bet y’all thought that just because I’ve been doing The AAUGH Blog about Peanuts books for over two decades, and have written four books about Peanuts, and Peanuts comic book stories, that Peanuts was all that I could write about, didn’t you? But I’m a professional writer! I’ve written …
Review: Happiness Is Having a Friend
I finally got my copy of Happiness Is Having a Friend (well, I got it a week ago; sorry about the slow posting, but life has been full of non-blog-related things.) This is a little hardback Peanuts book that is not meant for you to keep, but to fill in the …
Fully A-Maze-ing
The mighty Joe Wos himself has slipped us the full cover for the upcoming A-Maze-ing Peanuts. Normally, I would not bother to post such a thing since we’ve already seen the front, but in the case, the back cover gives you an example maze you can solve, so why not? You …
Charlie Brown’s America now e-shipping
Blake Scott Ball’s political analysis Charlie Brown’s America is now shipping… for the Kindle. Those of us who prefer to have trees murdered to make our books will just have to wait four weeks.
A-Maze-Ing cover
Here’s the solicited cover for A-Maze-Ing Peanuts, the upcoming book of mazes by Maze-Toon cartoonist (and frequent Schulz Museum guest) Joe Wos. The book ships in October and is available for preorder.
Charlie Browns of the Cs
Digging through newspaper archives, I decided to delve into earlier Charlie Browns. These are just the ones that start with C from the 19th century: Crook (1822): Cricketeer (1860): Cairo-bound steamer (1862): Confederate prisoner (1862): Congressional candidate (1863): Concerning choice of spouse (1863): Coat borrower (1866): Captain (1867):
email subscriptions are taken care of
The transition to the new system sending out the blog by email is complete. And to clear up some confusion – everyone who was getting the blog by email on the old system has been transitioned to the new one; no new sign-up is needed. And I’ll take advantage of …
Trusting journalism is hard
Did Schulz get idea from his kids? Was his dog like Snoopy? This 1957 article makes it clear: the answer to both questions is “no”! This 1958 article begs to differ!