A somewhat Peanuts kanji book
Just shipped from Fukuoka to the AAUGH.com reference library is a Peanuts kanji (Japanese handwriting) workbook. Well, it’s kind of Peanuts. There are Peanuts chracters on the cover, and along the edges of 5 of the 88 interior pages. That’s not to say that there aren’t cartoon characters throughout the …
Peanuts presented by a parakeet?
My latest Peanuts purchases hail from Mexico, as so many things (and folks) around here in Southern California do’ First off we have Felicidad Es Un Perrito Calientito, a Spanish language adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Puppy. They keep the full colored-paper format of the 1962 original… but to …
Name that Peanuts character!
Okay, you know all the Peanuts characters, right? You know the major folks, the minor folks, you can even tell 3 from 4, I’m sure. So here goes: So can you name the young gentleman on the right side of this panel, scanned here from Snoopy Swings Into Action, a …
New to the AAUGH.com reference library
Play It Again, Schroeder! is now shipping. Nicely, this is not a Schroeder-themed strip collection; it’s a music-themed collection. That means that it’s still Schroeder-heavy, of course, but not to the degree that they had to scrape up every Schroeder strip out there (in contrast to the recent Pig-Pen-themed collection). …
The Slightly Glimpsed Peanuts
Having read through my copy of Unseen Peanuts (being given out for free on Free Comic Book Day next Saturday — yes, my elves have secured me a copy already), I should note that in addition to having about 150 strips that were not in US reprint books until the …
Monsieur Schulz
After wanting a copy for a while, I’ve just added Monsieur Schulz et ses Peanuts, a commentary book about Peanuts by Marion Vidal. What makes this discussion of the strip interesting is that rather than being illustrated with examples of the strip itself, it’s filled with parodies and tribute drawings …
Half-Life
Here in the US (well, here to me; not all of you blog readers are “here” !), we have The Peanuts Guide to Life, a 128 page book of philosophy pulled from the strips (which I reviewed.) It turns out that in England, they have twice the book, each only …
Peanuts with a quilty look
I’ve made some additions to the AAUGH.com reference library. The least interesting of these is Just Fore Laughs, a collection of various (generally lackluster humorwise and occasionally poorly reproduced) golf-oriented comic strips, including a few Peanuts strips. The middlest interesting one is The Peanuts Guide to School Days, which is …
Peanuts strips become anecdotes
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com reference library is King’s Treasury of Dynamic Humor, by King Duncan. This is a book aimed at public speakers – most notably pastors, but in general any public speaker who needs short humorous anecdotes to begin their talks and to introduce a topic. The …
Obscure Schulz golfing booklet
Some of you may remember that when I announced the publication of It’s Only a Game, the collection of Schulz’s non-Peanuts syndicated newspaper cartoon from the late ’50’s, I stated that none of these cartoons had ever been in a book before. Well, it’s a good thing I said “book”, …