Quick notes
I’ve been getting questions asking whether the new book Celebrating Peanuts: 65 Years is the same as Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years from six years ago. Yes, it is, it’s just the paperback edition. AAUGH Blog reader John points to this Fantagraphics sale which has the small square book Waiting for the Great Pumpkin for …
Nothing much, what’s Snoo with you?
(My apologies to anyone who saw an incomplete version of this post that was accidentally published.) Yes, I went to Costco today. No, it wasn’t to look to see if the new hardcover collection of all the 1960s daily strips was in yet. Well, not entirely. But it wasn’t. In yet, …
The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie
The latest in this season’s large hardcover Peanuts book onslaught is The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie, which arrived today. I’ve only had time to flip through it, not to give it a full read… in part, because it has more text than some of the Art of books htat …
Tributing Peanuts
I just finished reading Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, and if I ever get called on to create material for a tribute book, I think I’ll start by reading this volume again. That’s because it contains a variety of takes of what it means to be doing a tribute. …
Snoopy!: Contact
There’s a saying that I lean on from time to time, generally when talking about sex or pizza, that “you have to have some really bad ____ for it to be worse than not having it at all.” The same concepts holds true for Peanuts strip collections. You know I like …
Snoopy basics
Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library are four newly shipping board books: Snoopy’s Book of . . . Colors covering the range of the rainbow. Well, plus white and black. Snoopy’s Book of . . . Shapes with circle, stripe, and even rhombus, which I think is a shape they invented …
Superimposed Snoopys
Sometimes looking at a bunch of Peanuts book covers in a row will raise questions… and answers. Question: Why does Snoopy look like he’s holding something in his right paw on this cover for a book coming out next March? Answer: See this book, coming out in January! And lest …
Bookplates for your Snoopy Treasures
First off, I don’t know why Amazon and BN.com are suddenly listing December 1 as the release date for my book The Snoopy Treasures. I’ve talked with the publishers, the books are in the warehouse, all is in line for meeting the announced November 10 release date. In a couple days, …
An additional Great American Adventure
The three history-oriented storybooks in the Peanuts Great American Adventure series that were one supposed to come out this year have been sliding all over the schedule; at the moment, one is now supposed to be landing in January with the other two in June. But add to that June …
Scamp Snoopy
Today’s dive into the “not THAT Snoopy” pile is the Kindle e-book for Scamp Snoopy (The Hooded Rodentia). This Snoopy is a black and white critter, but a rat rather than a beagle. Apparently, this is the true story of one of a pet belonging to the author, one Lolita Patricia …