The Word Is That You Need Not Seek Hard For Peanuts Word Seeks
I just noticed a good deal in back issues of Peanuts Word Seeks magazine, for those who may want them for their collection (or just are facing a shortage of words.) The publisher will send you a dozen back issues for $16.95 plus shipping. I expect these will all be …
Holiday Fantagraphics Peanuts discounts
The mighty Fantagraphics is running a bit of a sale for direct purchasers, trying to grab them early Christmas bucks. The list of things that are 30% off with free shipping can be seen here, They do include the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday as well as a couple of …
Bargains to be had
Amazon bargain prices can disappear at a moment’s notice, so I cannot guarantee these will still be there when you click on them, but: the recent hardcover rerelease of Chip Kidd’s Only What’s Necessary is 63% off and Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator (i.e., the award-winning biography …
Big Fantagraphics sale and other Peanuts notes
One thing about the switch from the previous blog-by-mail system to the current one is that if there were multiple blog posts in a day, the old system would send a single digest email while the new one will send an email for each post. Not wanting to flood people’s …
Another discount book
Hot on the heels of finding a discount printing of a Peanuts strip collection at Five Below, I discover another volume there. A-Maze-ing Peanuts was among their five-dollar books, and it’s original version (which has a different cover) is a $12.99 list price book. I’ve no idea if this is …
Fantagraphics sale
Sorry to find this too late… this is a deal that ends Sunday at 11:59 PM Pacific, and I found out about it with less than 13 hours left to go. If you’re getting this by email, it’s likely too late. Anyway, for each whole $50 you spend on a …
Big World, Big Savings
I stopped by Five Below the other day. It’s a youth-targeted store chain where most of the items are $5. I was surprised to find a big pile of It’s a Big World, Charlie Brown on their books table. It’s a full-color collection of strips from 1997 (about when the Rerun …
Costco eases out of books
Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …
Sam’s Club special
AAUGH Blog reader Bill alerted us to the fact the Sam’s Club stores have the boxed set The Peanuts Collection for a mere $11.98, about $9 less than when Costco had that set two years ago, and far far less than the total cost of the enclosed books (The Peanuts …
Various post-holiday notes
I hope that all of you who were Christmassing had a good one, and all of you who are Hannukafying are taking pleasure in these last few hours of the festival. Me, I not only got presents for both holidays, I got Peanuts presents for both. I’ll have pictures of …