And now that TV has announced The Peanuts Collection to the world, I’ll head back into telling the AAUGH Blog gang what they’ll find in the book. Now, where was I? Ah, yes, the next spread up is “Taking to the Stage”, looking at theatrical Peanuts. Tipped into this spread …

Jean Schulz was on the Today Show this morning, talking to Al Roker for several minutes about Sparky, Peanuts, and The Peanuts Collection. As the writer of that volume, I’m blown away; believe me, I’m not used to this scale of promotion for my books. Yipes. If you have a …

Today brought me a new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas – and this one is not just a new edition that’s only slightly different from a prior one. No, it’s not that it’s an all-new adaptation (it actually reuses all of the text and pieces of the art …

Just found another Peanuts book on the discount list at BN — the hardcover edition of Peanuts Treasury for $5.99. This is in addition to the previously-mentioned Schulz & Peanuts for $2.99 and the Barnes & Noble hardcover edition of Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz for $6.99, and …

Mr. Postman kindly brought me my latest Amazon package today, the one with The Peanuts Holiday Box Set, a boxed set of four minibook adaptations of Peanuts specials, published by Running Press. Now, my hopes weren’t really high that I’d score an actual new edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas; …

Jerry Beck reports on the passage of Bill Littlejohn, who worked as an animator on a number of Peanuts specials dating all the way back to A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as quite a respectable list of other projects. It’s been 45 years since that first Peanuts special. As …

So, you kind of wanted to read the biography Schulz & Peanuts, but after hearing the controversy, you were wary of putting much money in the pockets of the writer and publisher? Well, here’s your chance to get it for very little — $2.99 for a copy from Barnes & …

Now shipping is the new itty boxed set of adaptations of animated specials. You get Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day, so you’ll get through much of the year with this one boxed set. I would guess that the adaptations are the same as the ones that publisher Running Press …

October 2nd will be the 6oth anniversary of the first appearance of Peanuts in the funnypages. So, what’ll ye olde AAUGH Blogger be doing to celebrate the date? Will I be doing an all-day Peanuts blogathon? Or reading through stacks of The Complete Peanuts? Nope. I’ll be creating my own …

My 5-year old daughter was playing her favorite online game Poptropica, and suddenly called me over  to show me they’ve added a “Great Pumpkin Island” to the game, with Linus. Looks like they’re going to be adding more stuff to it soon. Those of you going to the actual blog …