Things I’d be adding to the AAUGH.com reference library if shipping from Japan wasn’t so costly
I just like this cover: I’ve lusted after this one here before. The lust has not abated. Because speaking is what Snoopy is known for: And my wish today to all of you: :
Ten years later, part 2
Ten years ago today, the final Peanuts strip came out. It seemed like the end of Peanuts, but really it wasn’t. The strips were still there, and so few of us had read them all, so there was still much more to discover. There are still rarely-seen pieces being unearthed …
Ten years later, part 1
Ten years ago today, Charles Monroe Schulz passed away in his sleep, bringing to a final end a long career of creativity. I’m not sure what there is to say at this point about his passing. I would rather he were still with us, of course, being with his loved …
A (probably) Schulz art auction
The National Cartoonist Society have put together a charity auction to help a family having particular trouble… and they have a piece of Peanuts art for sale. And this piece is bugging me. It’s familiar… but I can’t tell you where its from. Folks want to be absolutely certain it’s …
A puzzle or a riddle?
The other day, I posted this cover: … with the caption “As for the title, I’m as befuddled as Charlie Brown is by the title of his book” Several alert Japanese-literate AAUGH Blog readers dropped a line to let me know that the title is Snoopy’s nazo nazo kyoushitsu, which …
A foreign view of Schulz’s America
As a publisher, I’m being made happy by this article on the new French edition of Schulz’s Youth, which looks at this collection of Schulz’s Christian youth cartoons as window onto American religiosity. It’s an interesting outsider perspective on the work, and I look forward to seeing the response to …
CORRECTIONL a big coupon
BN is doing a big coupon deal, just good today and tomorrow – 20% off of any one item, and that’s off of their already discounted prices. So Celebrating Peanuts, which lists for $75, and they usually price at $45, and which they are now running under an everyone-gets-member-prices deal …
Franklin in action
What you’re looking at is a Franklin action figure – I’m told it’s the first figure for this fine fellow. It’s part of this new A Charlie Brown Christmas action figure set… and if that gives you a moment of pause, it should. Franklin wasn’t in the special A Charlie …
Happy Beethoven’s birthday!
I hope you’re all eenjoying your Beethoven’s birthday celebrations. But while you’re exchanging your presents and singing your Beethoven carols,let us reflect on the fact that so many have forgotten thetrue meaning behind the holiday: Choose to care.
The ways of eBay, and what people are buying
So I was searching for Peanuts books on eBay the other day (an exercise which has gained me a lot of items and cost me a lot of money over the years), and I came across a copy of the leatherbound Easton Press edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The …