The two that got away
There is psychological economics concept called “loss aversion”, which relates (as I loosely understand it) to the idea that we feel certain sort of economic losses far more than we feel gains; that you will remember that time you filled up and a minute later saw a gas station that …
Good Ol’ Charles
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is The Graphic Art of Charles, the book for a 1985 exhibition at The Oakland Museum (which then traveled through nine other museums through 1988). Now, if that title sounds a little odd to you, well, it may be unique. Every other …
Be My Exclusive Valentine, Charlie Brown
Peanuts books sometimes leak out in odd places (I still have not been able to locate The Big Book of Peanuts anywhere but Costco, for example, and for those who have been asking, even they seem to be out of it now). If alert AAUGH Blog supporter Scott hadn’t called …
Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name
Some folks talk about trademark as a way big, evil corporations “steal language” to keep the little guy from getting ahead. Actually, trademark legally exists to protect the little guy, the consumer, by letting them know that an item that bears a trademark meets the standards of the company that …
Now that’s audacious
I stumbled across this Amazon listing for a print-on-demand Charlie Brown and Snoopy coloring book. Seemed a little odd for a Peanuts coloring book to be published that way. After all, there are plenty of Peanuts coloring books published through traditional means, so it doesn’t need the print-on-demand advantage in …
There Will Be Peanuts Every Sunday
Lest anyone fear that the preceding announcement regarding financial struggles at publisher Fantagraphics will delay or scuttle the publication of the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday, this picture should allay your fears. The books have been printed, and should be shipping soon. And how is the book? Well, it’s …
2013’s Charlie Brown Christmas take 2
Just arrived here at the magnificent AAUGH office campus, we’ve just received the second new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas for this year. Well, calling this a new edition is generous, but I’m a generous soul. What we’ve got here is a rerelease of 2000’s A Charlie Brown …
Not That Snoopy
It’s been a long while since I ran one of my Not That Charlie Brown entries, mentioning a book by or about someone named Charlie Brown. Well, here we have My Life With Snoopy, a new book about a shelter dog. The book is published by Cedar Forge Press, which …
Complete Peanuts enters the nineties
I haven’t had a chance to make my way through my copy of The Complete Peanuts volume 20: 1989-1990. Life has been full of life things and business things, such as talking to a lot of enthusiastic people at that ArtNight event. I arrived just after that filled up the …
TRIUMPH!
Yes, I have my copy of the new Kohl’s edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. This doesn’t have the textured cloth cover of some editions of this adaptation (the 2008 one with Tom Brannon art), but it does have a full-color jacket over full-color boards. It’s pretty big, at 10 …