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Back to The Peanuts Collection

Strolling back through my upcoming book The Peanuts Collection, we’re up to, let’s see, page 26, which is a spread about Peanuts licensing. The decoration on this spread are largely of books – a Peanuts Datebook from 1962 (an early Determined Productions product), of the Woman’s Sports Foundation’s Cookbook (with …

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More on Nat’s book (note: that’s not “Moron Nat’s book”)

Been a slow news period, but it’s about time to do some more flipping through The Peanuts Collection, the upcoming slipcased hardcover look at Peanuts which I provided the text for. We’re up to page 18 here, and this spread is about advertising and Peanuts. The text talks about some …

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Nat at Comic-Con

For those of you who are coming to Comic-Con in San Diego next week and want to say “hi”, well, I certainly don’t want you to miss the Peanuts panel to catch my mostly-aimed-at-retailers 24 Hour Comics Day panel. However, I have arranged to do a signing at the Prism …

Animated Peanuts

AAUGH!

So the San Diego Comic-Con 2010 is coming up in just under 2 weeks, and if you look at the schedule of talks, you will find this: Friday, 2:00-3:00 Peanuts Turns 60— On October 2, 1950 the Peanuts comic strip launched in seven American newspapers. Little did anyone know the …

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Triumph!

That’s me, holding up the leather-bound Easton Press edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition, which I scooped up with a little recent birthday money. With this purchase, I now own every edition of print adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Well, every one that I …

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More info on the upcoming book

I still haven’t gotten clearance to talk about that October book. But for those of you who asked, there is more info to be linked to!

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An upcoming book

As I’ve said before, when I’m on the “inside” of some project, I’m not always free to talk about the details. But no one can fault me for linking to a listing that’s already on Amazon….

Animated Peanuts

You are Good Folks, AAUGH Blog Readers

First off, thanks to all of the AAUGH Blog readers who sent in suggestions about how I can get the scent of smoke out of my Braille edition of Home Is On Top Of A Doghouse (various suggestions of laundry products, baking soda, and exposure to sun). I do now …

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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 …

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The dreaded missing “not”

Ever type an email or a message board post and make a strong statement, but accidentally leave the word “not” out of it? I’ve got that down to about once every three years now. Did that in the last message. On the DVD, they didn’t have me saying anything I …