I’m a guest on the latest episode of It’s a Podcast, Charlie Brown, which you can listen to here, or download from your favorite podcastorium. (You should listen to the whole thing to introduce yourself to William’s podcast, of course, but if for some reason you want to skip right to …

I had promised that my new video series, Comics Show and Tell with Nat Gertler, would soon get to Peanuts content, and now it has! Take a look at my favorite strange Peanuts books in the AAUGH.com Reference Library. https://youtu.be/pDZ4HyMUl6Y

I’ve just launched a new video series, Comics Show and Tell with Nat Gertler. This will look at interesting and obscure aspects of comics (broadly considered), from my quirky point of view. The first two episodes (only one of which is released so far) deal with forgotten early African American …

Happiness is finding that a book you wrote has been translated into another language. Sadness is finding that Amazon lists you as “unknown author”.  

I publish things. I also research things. And really, the two efforts are often one and the same: I research stuff and find that it’s worth publishing; I publish stuff and in the process I’m doing research. That all just happened for me with a syndicated comics panel called “Spot” …

One of the complaints that Schulz had about his strip being named Peanuts against his wishes is that it lead some people to think that one of the characters in the strip was named “Peanuts.” That was brought to mind when I read this particular strip in a book that …

I have now received my box of author’s copies of Be More Charlie Brown, which will be officially released next week. This light-hearted self-help book is a follow-up to my earlier (and still available) volume, Be More Snoopy. As I always do with my new Peanuts-related hardcovers, I’m willing to send …

The latest book I’ve issued with my publishing hat on is a book that has a Schulz link… even though it came out when he was three years old. lHow To Draw Cartoons is a guidebook created by cartoonist Clare Briggs,  one of the comic strip powerhouse of the day …

I got interviewed about my Peanuts obsession/collection/business by my local NPR station, so my fellow Prius drivers across Ventura County, California (and beyond) got to hear my dulcet tones You can listen to the interview (or read the text version) here.  

…it’s me. I’m writing Be More Charlie Brown, the follow-up to Be More Snoopy, which I also wrote. I doubt many of you are surprised. I’m sorry that I had to be circumspect earlier, but as the author name was not part of the metadata that the publisher had issued …