Crochet
I’m not going to review Peanuts Crochet, not just because there would be a strong conflict of interest for me (I am, after all, working on an upcoming book for the same publisher and packager), but because I am really in no position to judge a crochet book, and I …
The most valuable Peanuts book of all
Yesterday, I was guest speaker at my son Ben’s kindergarten class. I spent forty minutes in the morning telling them about how comic books are made and how you read them. I mentioned some of what I’ve worked on (Power Rangers got a good reaction) and what I am working …
Knowing what you’re buying helps
When buying stuff from eBay, it often helps to know exactly what you’re buying… because the seller often doesn’t. Take, for example, this item, which I recently obtained. The auction listing says that it was three books in one! What a great deal! And it’s possible that the seller really …
the first of two Dance-themed Peanuts books this year
Let me apologize for the relative silence on the blog this week; I’ve been dealing with both writing deadlines (which I’ve gotten clear of) and a cold (which I have not). But I can tell you that as promised, I now have Let’s Dance, Snoopy, and to answer the question I put …
An appropriately awkward Valentine
The latest in Fantagraphics’s series of square seasonal giftbooks is A Valentine for Charlie Brown. And it’s good at what it is, but may not be good for what you’d want it for. It’s good because it’s a collection of Valentine’s Day-themed Peanuts strips, broken up into three sections: one about …
The bookshelves get a little heavier
Three more items were added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, none of them at all large, but still, the bookshelves are filled and droopy. The more important one to me is one I’ve been seeking for years. It’s Your Town, Charlie Brown is an auction catalog/souvenir book for the statues …
a Schulz variant some got by Providence
If you’re a Schulz book collector who likes to get not only all the books, but every possible variant (not a path I recommend; that way lies madness!), you might want to get in touch with bridge-playing pals from the Northeast. Yesterday was the last day of the 2014 Fall …
Far better than those cuddleproofed Snoopys
I like to believe I’m great at catching Peanuts-related books that go through normal book distribution channels, and pretty good at spotting ones that go outside of those channels… but sometimes, one eludes me. That’s the case with the book Best Friends. No, no, not the book Best Friends that came bundled …
it’s Your Year, Charlie Brown!
As I’ve discussed before, it’s tough to make a good Peanuts prose book, because the humor of the strip is so grounded in the visuals and the rhythm they create. And the humor is so internal. Well, I’ve found a book that does the best job yet of making it …
the cookie cutters came
The repeatedly-delayed Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set finally exists. It features three cookie cutters: a very-Peanutsy Snoopy head one, an acceptably in the range christmas tree, and, well, a mitten. Accompanying them is a 48 page paperback cookbook of cookie recipes bearing names like “Woodstock’s Gingerbread Cookie Heroes”, “Spike’s Biscochitos Cut-Out Cookies”, …