New TV Specials Coming!
In the midst of the announcement that Apple TV+ has the rights to the classic specials, I almost overlooked their announcement of the quantity of NEW Peanuts material they’ll be bringing. I had assumed that the announcement of The Snoopy Show would mean no more Snoopy in Space, but wrong I am! A …
It’s Off the Network, Charlie Brown?
I’ve been getting email asking me about this year’s airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, because it wasn’t listed as coming up on the ABC schedule. And I was checking that schedule just the other day, and it still wasn’t there… and usually, it airs once early in the …
A fictionalized Kennedy reads Peanuts
The latest book from me (with my publisher hat on) is an expansion of a book I issued and let go out of print a decade back, a collection of Miss Caroline, a gag cartoon series from 1963 about Caroline Kennedy and her place as a child in the White House. …
Snoopy Comma Home
Ah well. They fixed the cover for the upcoming release of Snoopy Come Home, and now it’s a reuse of the original Snoopy, Come Home cover. But, well, remember when I talked about the question of what is the name of the film Snoopy Come Home? Here’s the situation again. The picture tells …
Hourglass figuring
Friend-of-the-blog Tim Chow calls attention to the final panel from the March 2, 1986 Sunday strip, as reproduced in the just-released volume 8 of Peanuts Every Sunday. That hourglass, well it isn’t going to work. It’s too full of sand. All the sand of an hourglass has to fit in …
Snoopy Come Home always causes a problem
When I saw that Titan Books was making Snoopy Come Home the next in their series of reprints of the Holt Rinehart and Winston Peanuts books, I was wondering which cover they would go with. Would they go with the original cover, or with the white cover version as with …
Schulz’s Youth – still available!
I sometimes lament that Schulz’s Youth, the book I compiled as the most complete collection of Schulz’s cartoons for the Church of God, is out of print. This is, after all material that is mostly not in print anywhere. However, when I say that, I should remember that “out of print” …
The AAUGH Blogger on a podcast? Really!?!
This is me on a podcast talking a bit about Peanuts, some about the Green Book, probably a couple other things, with my friend, therapist Rachel Bernstein. (And if you like it, there’s plenty more episodes of hers to listen to, mostly focused on the topic of cult membership, which …
It’s a song of a parody, not a parody of a song
I had never really looked into The Mad Show, a 1960s off-broadway musical hit based on Mad, the satirical comics magazine, but I happened to look at its Wikipedia page for some reason, and there I saw, in the song listings, “Misery Is…” Now, this isn’t the song that anyone talks about …
More animated Peanuts coming!
As part of today’s 70th-anniversary-of-Peanuts celebration, Apple TV has announced a new series. The Snoopy Show will launch in February, 2021. (For those who cannot see the trailer below, it’s here.)