The new Only Necessary cover
AAUGH Blog reader Asher kindly pointed out that I had messed up including a link to my review of the previous edition of the Chip Kidd book Only What’s Necessary, so I’ve fixed that post, and here’s the link again! Meanwhile, we now have a front cover image for the …
Not just a Peanuts book, THE Peanuts Book
Coming out this fall for the 70th anniversary of Peanuts is a 200 page hardcover that is titled simply The Peanuts Book. (There is a chance that I will have a very minor involvement in this book, so out of caution, I’m raising the ethics flag and just running the …
Be Thankful, Be Giving
Be Thankful, Be Giving is a new Peanutsboard book coming out this September, just in time to buy it for kids for a… Thanksgiving gift? Is Thanksgifting really a thing?? Art by Scott Jeralds.
You are Foldable, Creasy Brown
For you crafty types, September’s Peanuts Origami: 20+ Amazing Paper-Folding Projects Featuring Charlie Brown and the Gang will give you the instructions and supplies you need to turn the square piece of paper into the Round-hHeaded Kid. Also included will be Peanuts trivia quizzes.
It’s a library book even if you buy it
Coming in August (and available for preorder) is Let’s Go to the Library!, a Ready-to-Read level 2 book about young Sally Brown getting her first library card. I can just picture the consideration at the library behind buying the hardcover library edition of this book. “We should get this! It …
Coming: the sure cure for what ails you
When I am down, facing troubles, there is nothing that helps me muddle through more than having something to look forward to. And while life has tossed me some challenges lately, it has also given me something to keep me going, the very sort of thing that gets me through …
My conflicts of interest
I have been doing the AAUGH Blog (or its email-based predecessor, the AAUGH.com Newsletter) for just over two decades now, and as you probably have sensed, I try to give you honest reactions. In the interest of transparency I feel the ethical need to list my conflicts of interest from …
Peanuts: Scent book review
Korean publisher… no, wait, not generally… Korean scent-products manufacturer, put out a pair of volumes titled Peanuts: You Are a Loving Person and Your Life will be Filled with Scent, volumes 1 and 2. These were available through Nordstrom’s in the US, although I only latched on to that fact in time …
Review: The Peanuts Papers
It has taken me along time to work my way through the essay collection The Peanuts Papers. Life has been rather full. Some major personal things are going down; as a publisher I’ve put out two books this month alone (this week, a reprint of a Sergio Aragonés book that’s been …
Was Dolores in the strip?
Some of you may have noticed that I have a bit of an obsession with Dolores, a Latina character who did not appear in any of the Peanuts strips, nor in the animated Peanuts, but was seen in a series of Peanuts educational filmstrips circa 1980, and who has since …