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Now shipping: and though I should have noted it earlier, the DVD boxed set of This is America, Charlie Brown is now available for immediate shipment. This has the complete eight-episode miniseries, more than three hours of material on two disks at a good price.

Upcoming releases

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving cover

We’ve got an early look at the cover for the new mini book edition of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which supposely won’t be out until the Fall of 2007. At this point, I’m split between believing that and suspecting that someone just misentered a date, and the book is due …

Classic finds

An odd Schulz illustration

Over at his Arf Lovers Blog (which unfortunately doesn’t seem to have individual entry links, you’ll have to scroll down to the June 27th entry – and warning, some of the entries aren’t work safe) Craig Yoe chronicles an obscure 1958 pamphlet You Don’t See These Sights on the Regular …

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Contest winner announced

The contest is over, the judge has made is arbitrary and final ruling, so it’s time for the announcement: The contest, as you may recall, was to come up with the best response to this question: “You bought Complete Peanuts Volume 5: 1959-1960 when it came out in the spring, …

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Cover changes

Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. I Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when …

New releases

Non-Schulz Peanuts appear again

An intrepid AAUGH Blog reader (hi, Michael) called our attention to issue 59 of Alter Ego, a magazine on comic book history. In there is an interview with Al Plastino, long-time comic book artist, former cartoonist of the Nancy comic strip, and most relevant to this discussion, the guy whom …

New releases

Charlie Brown off to Camp – review

I’ve finished reading It’s Off to Camp, Charlie Brown, and the first question I have is: what’s off to camp? What does the “it” in the title refer to? I know it’s supposed to invoke the TV specials such as It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, but in that, the …

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a contest with a cool Peanuts book prize!

It’s time for AAUGH.com to run its first contest, and thanks to the folks at Fantagraphics, we have a cool prize for some Peanuts book collector out there. How would you like to win volumes 1-3 of The Complete Peanuts… in Italian?!? How many of your collecting friends have those? …

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Schulz shirt

I have a number of t-shirts with Charles Schulz drawings on them, but I don’t have a t-shirt with a drawing of Charles Schulz on it.

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Completely Peanuts? Completely foreign to me!

In the wake of last night’s post about foreign language edition of The Complete Peanuts, I got a reader inquiry about “hey, is it going to be available in thus-and-such a language?” (Hi, Dan!) And so, to head off getting that inquiry one at a time for every possible language, …