Sparky no longer drawing funny pictures, plus gift thoughts
The young-folked-aimed biography that I mentioned a while back as being called Drawing Funny Pictures: The Life and Times of Charles M. Schulz is now going to be titled Sparky: The Life and Times of Charles M. Schulz, and the release date has been moved up to April. And as …
My Life with Charlie Brown
Coming in April, My Life with Charlie Brown – M. Thomas Inge culls from Schulz’s own words to paint a picture of his life. Let me note that at the moment this book is exactly $25, which means if you order it now, you should lock in the free shipping… …
Everything I Need to Know cover
Everything I need to Know I Learned from Peanuts is shipping next March, but can be preordered now.
Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 cover
Shipping in April.
Linus and Lucy 2: The Revenge!
AAUGH Blog reader Dave from Nashville steered me to some tweets from George Winston, who recorded the very successful album Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi. Looks like his next album will return to that well, and will be called Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi …
Planning ahead for next Halloween!
You can now preorder next year’s adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown… which seems likely to be the same adaptation as the one currenty available in Hallmark stores. You can also preorder Sparky: The Live and Art of Charles Schulz, the bio-for-kids shipping in March. As I’ve noted …
Now available for preorder: Complete Peanuts 1975-1976
The Complete Peanuts: 1975-1976, the thirteenth volume in the series, is now available for preorder. This one covers the halfway point of the Peanuts run. The cover of this one will have Peppermint Patty. The foreword is by Robert Smigel, the puppetry hand behind Insult the Comic Dog and the …
You’re a Good DVD, Charlie Brown
The official announcement came out today: the animated version of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is coming to DVD for the first time in January. I’ve known for a while that this was coming, because they interviewed me for the new featurette on the making of this special. Don’t …
a bird/dog box
February brings Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends, which is a 32 page booklet packaged with a figures of the two characters.
More Schulz bios
It seemed like the flow of biographies of Schulz got interrupted by the release of the Michaelis biography – what had been a flow of little bios disappeared for a while, even though most of those bios were for the kids and thus not in conflict with that big yellow …