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Nat interviews – and welcome Mr. Media fans

For those of you coming here from hearing about The AAUGH Blog on the Mr. Media podcast – welcome, and I hope you enjoy! There’s ordering information on The Peanuts Collection at the bottom of the page, and please take the time to browse through the blog entries and see …

Classic finds

Speaking of Complete Peanuts covers

Long before he was designing the covers for The Complete Peanuts, the respected comics artist known simply as “Seth” took on Peanuts in another way. It has for years been either a very poorly kept secret or not a secret at all (I never know who knows what) that Seth …

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Peanuts in American Heritage

The latest issue of American Heritage is now out – well, okay, that’s a stupid thing to say – the latest issue is always out, since whatever the most recent issue out is is always the latest. Let me start again: the Fall 2010 issue of American Heritage is now …

Animated Peanuts

This year’s airings of Great Pumpkin

If there seems tobe a lot of AAUGH Blog entries these days, there’s good reason. Part of it, of course, is my new book, so please forgive me if I’m a proud poppa and post about it a fair bit. But the other part isthat we’re getting into Peanuts Season, …

Upcoming releases

The next Complete Peanuts cover

The Complete Peanuts volume 15: 1979-1980 is now available to preorder. Here’s the cover: Honestly, I don’t know if they just haven’t announced the intro writer yet, or if they’re choosing to forego them now.

Upcoming releases

Nat explains more of his book

Whoops – meant to post this last week. Yes, the book is now shipping from some sources. Sales links at the bottom of the post. Let’s see where we’re up to in our look at The Peanuts Collection? Ah, yes, “Supporting Characters” – this is a spread for those characters …

Now shipping

Peanuts Collection now shipping – get yours signed

Well, I see that some of the key online retail sites are listing The Peanuts Collection as in stock for immediate shipment, a couple weeks before the official release date. I had planned to get through my preview of the book before it hit… ah, well. If you’re buying a …

Animated Peanuts

Sewing up animation adaptations

In recent years , I’ve laid hands on a few cloth Peanuts books – or at least the panels of fabric offered to make them. Well, today I laid hands on two more – and they actually fit two categories for me. Not only are these two cloth books – …

Discounts

Discount Peanuts cocoa

For about the next hour-and-a-half, Amazon has Peanuts Good Grief Cafe It’s the Great Pumpkin Halloween Orange Hot Chocolate on sale, 3 canisters for $13. I’ve no idea if that’s a particularly good deal; I just wanted an excuse to type the full name of it.

General

Happy 60th Anniversary of Peanuts

Lots of stuff going on today – free entry at the Schulz Museum, a new display at the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery got a picture of Schulz yesterday. But even if you can’t be involved in all that – go read some Peanuts! (And if anyone is near Manhattan …