Next time I’m in DC…
While doing a web search, I stumbled across the fact that the Smithsonian Institute has a piece of original Schulz art… in their Duke Ellington archives. Since it’s undated, it was probably not an original strip – perhaps Schulz just did a character drawing as a gift for the great …
The ultimate Charlie Brown Christmas gift
AAUGH Blog reader Mark points us to this unique Charlie Brown Christmas item that’s on eBay, in a sale ending in just a few hours: an (apparently) actual script for A Charlie Brown Christmas that was used for rewrites, paste-ups, and the like. At $2500 Buy It Now, this is …
If you re-collect the 1960s, you weren’t really there
With Woodstock-the-bird serving as the mascot for Woodstock-the-music-festival, the folks at Warners thought it was a good time for a release of a boxed set of the 1960s Peanuts specials. The bad news is that this overlaps with specials that were already released on DVD. The good news is that …
ABC aggressive on making it a (Charlie) Brown Christmas
Not only is ABC running A Charlie Brown Christmas twice this holiday season (once last night, once on Tuesday the 16th), and not only are they running it as an hour long block by matching it with the fine Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales, but they’re also running the hour-long I …
All Peanuts strips online
As someone who help sells a lot of Complete Peanuts books, it may not be in my best interest to point this out, but all of those strips? It looks like they’re now online. Legally. The syndicate’s website appears to have put their full database up. (At the moment, it …
those new Peanuts cartoons now on-line
If you’ve got iTunes set up, this link should take you to the free sample of the new Peanuts cartoon, including two episodes of the 20 they’re making this season. They run about three and a half minutes each, plus credits. In this case, the two episodes really cover one …
little Peanutsy bits
In the US, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs Tuesday on ABC. Next Sunday, November 2nd, Fox will be airing the 19th annual Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror special… and this year’s includes their parody of The Great Pumpkin. A friend of the blog points us toward a new Snoopy …
Peanuts is everywhere
No book news here. I just couldn’t help noting how the Peanuts hits the world in many places, in many ways. Between finding a page of praise of Schulz from the Pakistan Observer (which judging by their trying to pin recent terrorist attacks on the CIA, is not a lover …
R.I.P. Bill Melendez
Bill Melendez, the animator who brought the Peanuts characters to screens big and small, turning out some of the most beloved cartoons, passed away yesterday, at 91. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Melendez on a couple occasions. He was happy, friendly, and even in his later years, an …
Snoopy in the air, on the air
My pal Scott McGuire notes that CBS is about to reair a one-hour documentary about Snoopy. No, not the dog himself… the blimp, Met Life’s “Snoopy One”. The title is The Best Shot in Golf, and it airs Saturday daytime on CBS. Check your local listings.