The new worst Schulz biography
Those of you who have been reading for along time may recall that I love to pull apart the short Schulz biographies that are written as part of bulk biography sets for school libraries. They often make up for their short, shallow nature by adding factual inaccuracies or laughably bad …
Schulz on Wash Tubbs
If you look over at the AAUGH.com Guide’s page to books for which Schulz did introductions and illustrations, you’ll find he did a lot of them over the years. It’s not because he was a particularly masterful writer of such things – he’s not bad, but nothing impressive – but …
Turkish Snoopy
The AAUGH.com Reference Library now has the 1983 Turkish translation of 1958’s Snoopy, an early all-Snoopy strip collection. Now, this may be released on the 25th anniversary of its original release, but this abridged (3/4s the length) version is no fancy memorial edition. In fact, it’s rarely poorly produced, with …
Snoopy’s friends are a bird and a book
As I’ve said before, I’m not a Peanuts collector, I’m a Peanuts book collector. But sometimes “Peanuts” and “book” collide in non-standard ways – witness this tiny pin just sent me from Malaysia:
But maybe there’s nothing new under the sun?
“But WAIT!” I hear you cry. “If Sweet Dreams, Snoopy is just a shortening of the Snoopy’s Doghouse Library book of the same name, perhaps other Wendy’s Kid’s Meal books are just shortenings of books from that esteemed library!” First off, you’re becoming obsessed. I can hear your voices screaming …
A vital correction regarding Sweet Dreams, Snoopy
Last posting, I encouraged you not to confuse the different books entitled Sweet Dreams, Snoopy or some variant thereof. However, now that I have the new Wendy’s Kid’s Meal board book Sweet Dreams, Snoopy in my little Frosty-stained mitts, I can give you free rein to go ahead and confuse …
And the fourth Kids Meal board book is
It’s Sweet Dreams, Snoopy., now available as the kids-under-3 Kid’s Meal toy at the Wendy’s hamburger chain. (So we’re doing at least 4 months in a row – is it possible there will be a new board book every month this year?!?) I’m up late just to post this information. …
25th anniversary of a Peanuts book
With the upcoming release of not one but two fiftieth anniversary edition of Happiness is a Warm Puppy, I thought it was time to look at a volume I see surprisingly infrequently: the twenty-fifth anniversary edition. This edition came out in, ummm (runs out of fingers, starts to pull of …
What Snoopy reads
Now, let me make something clear. I am not a Peanuts collector. I am a Peanuts book collector. While I may accumulate other Peanuts stuff in various ways, I have no goal of having a complete set of anything or a great array of everything or any such things. In …
All about All About Me
I know this is a Peanuts comics oriented blog, but I’m going to begin this post with a digression (which I’m not sure it technically accurate phrasing; can one truly being something with a digression? But I digress.) In the history of Archie Comics publishing, there is a series titled …