Tricky Peanuts trivia time!
Today’s trivia question comes in two parts, each of which has two clauses. Who is this a drawing of, and what is his relationship to Peanuts? Who is the artist of the drawing, and what is his relationship to Peanuts?
Alliterative alphabet amusement
The board book My First Peanuts ABC is shipping now. It is a journey through our much-beloved alphabet, each page focusing on words starting with one letter (with X, Y, and Z dumped together on a single page.) The pictures are happy, the text is very Peanuts-oriented… and sometimes better suited …
Nothing much, what’s Snoo with you?
(My apologies to anyone who saw an incomplete version of this post that was accidentally published.) Yes, I went to Costco today. No, it wasn’t to look to see if the new hardcover collection of all the 1960s daily strips was in yet. Well, not entirely. But it wasn’t. In yet, …
The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie
The latest in this season’s large hardcover Peanuts book onslaught is The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie, which arrived today. I’ve only had time to flip through it, not to give it a full read… in part, because it has more text than some of the Art of books htat …
Tributing Peanuts
I just finished reading Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, and if I ever get called on to create material for a tribute book, I think I’ll start by reading this volume again. That’s because it contains a variety of takes of what it means to be doing a tribute. …
Snoopy!: Contact
There’s a saying that I lean on from time to time, generally when talking about sex or pizza, that “you have to have some really bad ____ for it to be worse than not having it at all.” The same concepts holds true for Peanuts strip collections. You know I like …
Snoopy basics
Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library are four newly shipping board books: Snoopy’s Book of . . . Colors covering the range of the rainbow. Well, plus white and black. Snoopy’s Book of . . . Shapes with circle, stripe, and even rhombus, which I think is a shape they invented …
Scamp Snoopy
Today’s dive into the “not THAT Snoopy” pile is the Kindle e-book for Scamp Snoopy (The Hooded Rodentia). This Snoopy is a black and white critter, but a rat rather than a beagle. Apparently, this is the true story of one of a pet belonging to the author, one Lolita Patricia …
Only What’s Necessary
The sensibility of Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, the new book from designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear, will seem very familiar to folks who bought Kidd’s earlier Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. It displays Peanuts work not as it was meant to …
Beagles und Wikinger kann Deutsch sprechen.
I just stumbled across Deutsch macht Spaß!, a three year old German language textbook for English speakers that aims to make learning grammar fun by using both Peanuts strips and Hagar The Horrible strips, all translated into German, as examples. (To be clear, I don’t have a copy of this on …