The latest addition to the AAUGH.com reference library is the December, 1958 issue of Better Homes and Gardens, the popular woman’s magazine. Now, if you’ve bought Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, you would’ve seen two Christmas stories that Schulz did for other women’s magazines during the 1960s… but the original Peanuts story in …

I’m already on the record as liking the Amp! Comics For Kids line, as you can see in my review of the first volume in the series, Snoopy: Cowabunga!. Let me stick with that review, in general – these full-color strip collections of reasonable thickness, at a reasonable price, and …

Okay, you regular readers know that my interest is Peanuts books, foreign as well as domestic. And you know that my madness is book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Up until now, the “foreign” part of my interest had not collided with the madness. As far as I could …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …