The Masked Face of Snoopy
I now have the board book The Many Faces of Snoopy (not to be confused with the strip collection Many Faces of Snoopy, nor the strip collection The Many Faces of Snoopy.) It consists of eight two-page spreads, each looking at a different Snoopy persona, with text from Jason Cooper and illustrations by …
Squeaky wheel, meet grease
Having chastised the Christian Science Monitor for their article on the end of the MetLife Peanuts license, I must now commend them for taking my concerns seriously once I submitted them. While the article is still grounded in some assumption of a lack of interest in Peanuts among the younger …
AAUGH! The blockheadedness! It hurts!
The dropping of the MetLife Peanuts licenses has produced some rather ignorant coverage, like: MetLife has dropped the 1950s cartoon character, a mascot that likely doesn’t resonate with the youngest generations. Source: The Christian Science Monitor article See you, Snoopy: why insurance co. is saying goodbye to cartoons To make that …
Peanuts out of the insurance business
Several people have contacted me to make sure I know about the announcement that MetLife is dropping their Peanuts license. There were signs that this was coming, and if it’s news it’s only because that license has lasted a ridiculously long time as licenses go. It produced some interesting commercials, and …
Many Faces of Snoopy
The new book Many Faces of Snoopy is a sort of book that we’ve seen pop up a few times, a strip collection focusing on Snoopy’s various personas. (That’s not a complaint; it’s a good idea, not everyone has all the old collections that I do already at hand, and with …
Canada rocks!
Here is a cute Canadian ad for the McDonald’s Great Pumpkin Happy Meal buckets, and part of what makes it cute is that young witch… who, as it happens, is a relative of mine. She not a close relative (she’s a “blank blank” relative… i.e., one you describe as being …
Losing 10 pounds, the Peanuts way!
The AAUGH.com Reference Library now has a copy of How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years, the 2004 memoirs of comedienne Kaye Ballard. Now, Ballard may be best remembered as an actress in The Mothers-in-Law, a 1967-1969 sitcom brought by some of the key creative forces behind I Love Lucy. However, her …
Peanuts Favorite Christmas Cookies
Not satisfied with destroying my wallet, Hallmark now also targets my waistline with Peanuts Favorite Christmas Cookies, a new cookbook with about 50 cookie recipes, plus some strips. AAUGH! I don’t have a copy yet, so I’ll avoid commenting on the slightly odd title until I’ve gotten it.
Beagle Board Book
Next January brings Meet the Easter Beagle!, a board book based on the It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown tv special.
Halloween’s more than a year away
We’re already seeing solicitations for Great Pumpkin books for pumpkin season 2017! Now you can pre-order: The board book The Legend of the Great Pumpkin The paperback The Great Pumpkin Returns both coming in July. And to fill your Peanuts board book need without the pumpkiny flavor, May brings Hugs for Snoopy, …