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 …
Peanuts Philosophers
For a while, we’ve had something called Peanuts Philosophers listed as coming next March. Well, that’s still the case, but now I know what it is – it’s a reprint of a cute little set of books (Snoopy’s Philosophy, The Wisdom of Charlie Brown, The World According to Lucy, and …
GREAT PUMPKIN 2010: Plan your future accordingly
Coming in August 2010 is It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The early signs suggest that this will be along the lines of last year’s new adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
More Peanuts DVDs
Coming in October is The Peanuts 1970’s Collection Volume 1, which continues the sequential release of the Peanuts specials (as well as the inappropriate use of an apostrophe in the title.) This set has two disks with half a dozen specials, including two that have never been on DVD before …
Peanuts go Blu-Ray
I’m back from Comic-Con, and what did I get there? Strange foreign germs, apparently. Lots of cough medicine and bed rest and all the TV shows that are stored up on my pseudoTivo, that’s what’s called for. Anyone who went there for the Peanuts stuff may have been a mite …