Fall Fantagraphics books
The solicitations have hit for this fall’s Peanuts books from Fantagraphics. There are no unexpected books here, but there are a couple pieces of good news. One is that they’re doing box sets of Peanuts Every Sunday, which means that if you wait, you should be able to save a few …
Happiness is an Expensive Puppy
If you want to spend a lot of money on a Peanuts book, then Easton Press is the way to go. It’s been a few years since they offered a new item on their list of gilt-edged, leather-bound, fancy-dancy editions, but supposedly this month they will be shipping Happiness is a Warm …
Now I’ve seen that which should not be seen.
I have in my collection various… let us say “ribald”… parodies of Peanuts, including ones that have taken actual Schulz material and, um, enhanced it with sexual, scatalogical, or drug material. Some of them are done with art and craft, some less so. I didn’t think anything in this realm …
Knowing what you’re buying helps
When buying stuff from eBay, it often helps to know exactly what you’re buying… because the seller often doesn’t. Take, for example, this item, which I recently obtained. The auction listing says that it was three books in one! What a great deal! And it’s possible that the seller really …
Reworking Peanuts from right to left
I knew the package that arrived today was going to make me very happy, but I wasn’t prepared for just how happy it would. The extreme happiness wasn’t just because it was Peanuts coloring books in Arabic, a language that previously didn’t have any place in the AAUGH.com Reference Library. …
A Boy Named Charlie Brown songwriter passes
The media is reporting that Rod McKuen has died at 81. A popular poet during the 1960s and 1970s, McKuen’s relevancy to the Peanuts world is that he wrote several songs for the film A Boy Named Charlie Brown, including the title track which earned an Oscar nomination.
April’s comic book
Coming in April is issue 27, with this pretty, pretty cover, and with yet again just one, full issue long story (although this one will be normal-issue length, a 22 page tale). Title is “Get Well Soon, Charlie Brown!” Let your comic shop know if you want it.
a story to go untold
I wish that, while I was writing stories for the Peanuts comic book, I had done one about Pig-Pen playing ping-pong. That would look cool and it’s fun to talk about!
Peanuts on Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day isn’t until May 2, but they’ve already announced the participating books (so that retailers can order them). And yes, there will be some Peanuts content in the free comic being issued by Boom!, but given the ten different series they intend to showcase in the book, expect …
More Great American Peanuts books
Coming in September is another trio of Peanuts storybooks in the Great American Adventure line from the conservative imprint Little Patriot Press. I Declare, Charlie Brown! looks at the founding of the country (“Declare” as in “Declaration of Independence”, I take it.) It’s a New World, Charlie Brown! goes back to …