To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first appearance of Franklin, Hogan’s Alley magazine has put online the article I wrote for them a couple years back about the creation of Franklin. Go read!

Thanks to everyone who came by the Snoopy panel yesterday at Comic-Con. All of the panelists had their own way of looking at Snoopy, we got to find out who on the panel had a Snoopy tattoo (answer: not me!), favorite strips were shared, audience questions were fielded, and everyone …

The famed Comic-Con International: San Diego (yes, that’s its full name) starts tonight and runs through Sunday. If you don’t have a ticket, don’t even think about it; it’s long since sold out (although if you are in San Diego anyway, there are plenty of things that are happening near …

The world famous San Diego Comic Con is two weeks away, and they just announced the only panel I’ll be on this year: Snoopy: A Retrospective Paige Braddock (creative director, Schulz Creative Associates; creator, Jane’s World), Lex Fajardo (managing editor, kaboom Peanuts; creator, Kid Beowulf), Gary Groth (co-founder, Fantagraphics) and …

I’m about to be out the door for Wondercon. If you’re going too, as I noted, you’ll be able to find me Friday 12 through 2 at the Comic Art Professional Society booth (#829)… but you’ll also be able to find the penciller of my “Bank Notes” story (and at …

Well, my AAUGH Blog readers, today is the day that Peanuts issue 7 hits better comic shops across the US and Canada. But for those of you in Southern California – this weekend is Wondercon, which is a comic book convention run by the same folks who run the famed …

As some of you may remember, last year I put together Bridge Mix, a selection of Schulz & Sasseville’s “It’s Only a Game” cartoons aimed at people who play bridge. It hasn’t sold a ton of copies, but enough that it was worth my time putting it together. And never …

The Phoenix New Times hit me up for what I thought would be a coupe pithy quotes about Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking. Instead it ended up being a much longer piece with lots of comment from me. Go read!

Now if someone would just translate it back into English, so I can find out what I said! If for some reason you need a copy, you can order it from an English website here.

This was my first time at Beaglefest, the big annual gathering of the Peanuts Collector Club. If you’re looking for a full report on it, look elsewhere, as I was only there for a sliver of it; it ran from Thursday through Sunday, and I was only in town Friday …