Peanuts on DVD and the campaign trail
Taking advantage of the election season, the folks at Warner Home Video are moving the TV special You’re Not Elected Charlie Brown from its former role as the second feature on Great Pumpkin DVDs to its own lead role on a DVD that comes out in early October. Taking the …
Charlie Brown on the radio
NPR did a nice piece on Charlie Brown as a character this weekend, talking to For Better Or Worse‘s Lynn Johnston, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown‘s Anthony Rapp, and Judith Viorst, author of many books including Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, a book that …
Peanutsudoku and more
Looking over the latest Peanuts books on hand: The biggest note is that the first printing of The Complete Peanuts volume 9 has a flaw; on page 53, they run the May 1st, 1967 strip twice, leaving out May 3rd. This will be fixed with the second printing, and volume …
A video to watch
I realize that not all AAUGH Blog readers watched the Super Bowl. If you did, you probably know what I’m linking to. If not, trust me: as an AAUGH Blog reader, you want to see this ad.
Lotsa little notes
I really am trying to separate things into individual posts these days – but I feel for folks who get the AAUGH Blog emailed to them, and rather than flooding their inboxes, here’s a variety of catch-up items: I Want a Dog for Christmas is on ABC tonight in the …
Only negative one more days until Schulz’s birthday!
AAUGH! I was so busy with certain other matters yesterday (more in the next message), I missed noting that it was Schulz’s birthday – he would’ve been 85. To celebrate, go read daughter Amy’s message about her father toward the end of this thread; it’s the first one for 11/27/07.
Schulz Biography website
There’s been a bare-bones website for the new Schulz biography up for years, but today they replaced it with a full-featured website, with review quotes, video of the author talking about the book, author tour dates, and such. The part that gave me an odd grin was the “advanced praise” …
Schulz biography versus his family
With the release of Schulz and Peanuts a week-and-a-day away, members of Schulz’s family are taking issue with the psychological portrait it paints. And while I never met Sparky and cannot tell you how accurate their objection to the portrait is, I can confirm that the book does indeed focus …
New Peanuts cartoons, DVDs coming!
The Hollywood Report is reporting that the Peanuts DVD rights have moved from Paramount to Warner (link via The Comics Reporter). This will mean: New direct-to-video cartoons, plus new direct-to-digital shorts Remastered and repackaged versions of he most famous specials Thick collections of the less-famous cartoons Sounds like good news …
Some non-book stuff
At Fashion Week this year, they had a special show of Peanuts-inspired fashions — and now you can see pictures and videos online of Snoopy in Fashion. Some nifty stuff there, and some really horrible stuff. Some of those outfits will be on display at the Schulz Museum from October …