Well, we know he’s at least three years old. Why do I say that? Well, I just got the new box “kit” set Linus Learns to Share. And as the cover points out, the book includes Linus’s blanket. And according to another part of the cover… …this is a choking …
I’ve heard from someone who is eager to get deep into the nitty-gritty of the publishing history of the Fawcett Crest Peanuts books – getting the public dates of each printing of each book, perhaps the print run, that sort of detail. If anyone out there has already done such …
I just heard from the folks at Racer X Illustrated. They decided to slide me a shot of the cover of their new issue, fresh from the printer. An article from Schulz’s son Craig legitimizes this cover. So keep an eye out at the newsstand for this one!
If you’re one of those folks lucky enough to have tickets for the sold-out San Diego Comic-Con next weekend, you’re in for an interesting treat Saturday, 4:45-5:45 PM: It’s a Great Comic-Con, Charlie Brown— Together for the first time at Comic-Con, Warner Home Video, United Media and the Schulz Estate …
I’ve just added two more books to the AAUGH.com reference library, neither one of them new. One is the second edition of Jan Lindenberger’s Unauthorized Guide to Snoopy Collectibles from 1998. It’s a book of pictures of Snoopy stuff, of course. Books like this always remind me of the great …
January brings us a new Peanuts kiddie book (presumably a board book, given the page count and price): The Easter Beagle Egg Hunt. If you think the upcoming book list is looking pretty empty between Complete Peanuts volumes, I agree. But worry not, there are other books for the serious …
This month’s issue of The Comics Journal focuses on the debate over the biography Schulz and Peanuts, including a 30,000+ word rebuttal from Schulz’s son Monte, plus commentary from a roundtable of Peanuts experts. I haven’t seen it yet, and in some ways, I’m a bit reluctant to; the debate …
Mo Willems will provide the introduction for The Complete Peanuts volume 10. Now, I suspect that while a few of you will smile at that, others are going “who”? Mo is a former Sesame Street writer who has become a leading children’s book creator. He is the creator of the …
You may have seen every Charlie Brown animation that has ever been on TV, but even that would leave you missing some special-purpose cartoons. One example of this is the pollution-themed short created for the American Lung Association, “Charlie Brown Clears the Air” Now, I enjoy a good Peanuts animation, …