There is a scene in one of my favorite comic book series of all time, ‘Mazing Man, in which one of the characters sees his friend, Guido, working in a shoe store, then later that day, sees him working in a different shoe store. When Guido is confronted with the accusation …
I’m pretty sure that some of you will rather like this image that author Stephen Lind just shared of the cover for A Charlie Brown Religion, which comes out in November. It’s probably the book that I’m most looking forward to among Peanuts books that don’t have my name on the …
Joining the long list of upcoming Peanuts books are a quartet of board books for the folks with little hands. Snoopy’s Book of Words, Snoopy’s Book of Shapes, Snoopy’s Book of Numbers, and Snoopy’s Book of Colors are all due in October. A couple of these (shapes and colors) are titles that were used on …
Here is the first batch of pages for issue 27 of the Peanuts comic book, hitting supportive comic book stores this coming Wednesday. It’s another just-one-story-in-the-issue issue.
The line of American Kindle versions of the old British Snoopy Stars/Snoopy Features books, which is launching with four books later this month is following with four more in May. Snoopy, Master of the Fairways Snoopy, Man’s Best Friend Snoopy, the Music Lover Snoopy, the Flying Ace
Australian books are a pain in my tuchis. They’re things I should get to keep up my goal of having all the English language Peanuts books, but shipping costs are simply forbidding. Now I’m looking with caution at a couple of books that are showing up in some listings, books …
AAUGH Blog reader John pointed out that Peanuts are part of the campaign for September’s National Library Card Month. And since this blog is about the intersection of Peanuts and books, and since libraries have books, it qualifies! Go over to their website and you can check out the posters of Joe …
AAUGH Blog reader Jon raises this question about Peanuts Volume 5: “Why is the cover art posted on Amazon different than what you have in your blog? Even the link you posted takes you to that different cover art.” The answer is pretty simple: publishers enter their information into the …
Hitting comic book stores Wednesday is volume 5 of the collected Peanuts comic books, published by Kaboom. This includes the three of my Peanuts stories for them – “Joe Stockcar”, “Press Here”, and “New Shoe Zoom”, with art by Andy Hirsch, Jeff Shultz, and Robert Pope, respectively. It also has …
Coming in November is a book that I alluded to a year back: A Charlie Brown Religion: The Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz, by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind. I’ve been waiting for someone to do a good book along these lines, and from what I’ve seen of Lind’s …