Now I’ve seen that which should not be seen.
I have in my collection various… let us say “ribald”… parodies of Peanuts, including ones that have taken actual Schulz material and, um, enhanced it with sexual, scatalogical, or drug material. Some of them are done with art and craft, some less so. I didn’t think anything in this realm …
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 …
Peanuts to Peanuts
The mail carrier has just brought me my latest eBay purchase, Happy Birthday Person to Person. For those of you less than about half a century old, “person-to-person” is an old telephone term. You could either call “station-to-station”, which basically means that you get charged for the call when anyone answers …
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 …
What happens when fun is illegal
Back in 1975, the Department of Commerce put out a booklet called The American Economic System… and Your Part In It. It used a number of Peanuts illustrations along with its text to help explain the economy. Now, materials produced by employees of the US government as part of their work are …
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 …