Snoopy’s Book Cafe and other show-off items
We just purchased a (used) display case, so it finally became time to put together the set of Japanese Snoopy’s Book Cafe miniatures that I’d purchased a couple years back. Rather than using the two-pieces-of-cardboard backdrop that comes with the set, we purchased a larger, plastic set of walls and …
Books are everything… and everything is books
One of the odd things about being a Peanuts book collector is when looking for books in Japanese, when you’ll discover that “book” gets rather broadly defined. If it can be packed into a rectangle, it may get distributed as a book. Generally, it’s items that can be well-flattened — …
This one left me bobbling my head.
The bobblehead people are after me to promote again… and I’ve told them I’ll only show their product when I have something relevant to say about it. So they sent me their latest request, and I have something to say about it. AAUGH! As part of their line celebrating Peanuts …
Diorama book report
This blog lives at the intersection of “Peanuts” and “books”, which is generally a comfortable place to be, but it has its surprises. The other day, my wife, daughter, and I were shopping at Miniso, a mall store that leans on licensed product (lots of Snoopy) and Japanese import items. …
Is the AAUGH Blogger bribable?
I came down this morning to an unusual email: a company issuing a limited-edition bobblehead offering me one if I were to use the vast power of my Peanuts fan platform to let said fans know that this bobblehead was available for purchase. I’ve been offered materials for review before …
You could’ve been in Peanuts
I just ran across this offer from 1987 where you could create a Christmas greeting strip featuring a friend’s name in it. The art is somewhat reworked from the December 2, 1982 strip.
The first Peanuts ads?
Yesterday, while searching for something else utterly un-Peanuts related, I stumbled across an ad campaign that I don’t think I’d ever heard of before. A series of eight ads for Connecticut Blue Cross ran in newspapers during 1958. By 1958, Peanuts had been used in various commercial ways, like Peanuts …
A big Peanuts reprint
When I showed off the upcoming Franken-Snoopy items from Hallmark yesterday, I left one out, and it’s a big one — 3000 square inches, to be precise. This blanket is a 50″x60″ reprint of the March 17, 1964 Peanuts strip. I hope they don’t start reprinting all the Sundays like …
Yes, I got the bloody t-shirt!
The American Red Cross contacts me all the time, with phone calls and emails and the like, asking if I’m ready to give blood again. I donate a pint with reasonable regularity. But this month has been a little nuts, because, while they often have some little thank you gift …
We just finished one year, and already there’s another one!
Welcome to 2023, AAUGH Blog readers! I hope that everyone has been having fantastic holidays. Here, we had two new pieces of Peanuts statuary enter the house during the holidays. One of them, a gift from Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blogger, was a Japanese piece that I had praised in …