Peanuts at Comic-Con
This week brings the annual San Diego Comic-Con, the annual madhouse of joyous geekdom. And if you’re wondering whether you should go – don’t. It’s too late. They’ve already sold out of all tickets for all days, and won’t be selling more at the door. So if you don’t have …
A Charlie Brown dream
We’re about a month away from this strip being rerun in the daily papers: I couldn’t help but recall that strip when I read this article. A Charlie Brown only metaphorically in the stands, I suppose…
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 …