Bad balloons
Oh, I’ll admit it, I’m a format geek. I find the silly little things that have to be done while putting together a book of comics interest… and after I’ve spent a few days in a row figuring out just what shape each word balloon in the new issue of …
Complete Peanuts 5 review
Yes, I’ve finally gotten around to writing up The Complete Peanuts 1959 to 1960. I apologize for the delay. But lets face it, you don’t need a review. If you’re the sort of person who reads The AAUGH Blog, you should get this book, and all the other volumes in …
Patriotic Peanuts
For a long time, I wasn’t certain that the book What Makes This Country So Great? actually existed. The only copy I had ever seen of this miniature Hallmark hardcover was in a display case at the Snoopy Gift Shop in Santa Rosa, and the folks I talked to hadn’t …
Peanuts All-Stars review
Peanuts All-Stars is a curious choice for a book. With other recent books out there having focused on the baseball strips and the golf strips, this one is meant to cover the other key sports from the strip. It has sections for basketball, football, hockey, and tennis, with plenty of …
German Peanuts tidbits
The AAUGH Blog has readers in a surprising range of places, as an email from Chris in Germany serves to remind me. He weighs in on the German Love is a Book with Seven Seals title, which we had previously discussed here and here, suggesting that the “book with seven …
Snoopy projects leaflet
One of the cool things about being the AAUGH.com guy is that sometimes people find something and send it to you. For example, AAUGH Blog reader Scott in Michigan came across 3 Snoopy Projects, a full color trifold leaflet being distributed by Joann fabric shops last holiday season. This leaflet, …
The mystery of Seven Seals
AAUGH Blog reader Fred Dingledy put some research muscle into the question of the odd title of the German Peanuts book Love is a Book with Seven Seals: it looks as if “ein Buch mit sieben Sigeln” is a German expression referring to someone or something that can’t be understood …
German love
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com reference library is Liebe ist ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln, which is the 1967 German translation of the pictures-and-aphorism book Love is Walking Hand in Hand. Actually, “translation” is taking it too far. My German is pretty bad, but even I noticed that the …
Easter Beaglet
The new hardcover adaptation of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is now in my hands, and as I suspected before, the Amazon description of its size is wrong. It’s roughly 3 inches wide and high, not more than six as Amazon says. It’s a 128 page book with 28 …
A Peanuts Valentine
There are now two books available called A Peanuts Valentine. There’s the strip collection, which came out last year, and now there’s the kids’ book. This is an odd item, a storybook with a cardboard envelope attached to each spread. Each envelope contains a cardboard object related to the tale… …