Cheap bio for the Nook
At the moment, the Nook ebook edition of Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman is on sale for a mere buck-ninety-nine. This was an okay one, aimed at the younger set but not one of those cheaply-done part-of-a-set ones done for the youngest readers.
Snoopy Dance by the book
Coming in July is Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance, a 160 page hardcover of quotes about dancing and life, with Snoopy cartoons. Available for preorder, of course!
Something I’m not buying that plays on a device I don’t own
Until a few minutes ago, I was unaware of this recording. Apparently, in response to the Royal Guardsmen’s hit “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”, a UK act called The Delicatessen released what looks to be their only single, a response song called “The Red Baron’s Revenge”. I do not know …
it’s Your Year, Charlie Brown!
As I’ve discussed before, it’s tough to make a good Peanuts prose book, because the humor of the strip is so grounded in the visuals and the rhythm they create. And the humor is so internal. Well, I’ve found a book that does the best job yet of making it …
Disappearing books
Two upcoming books that had been listed on Amazon have mysteriously disappeared. The pages for Peanuts Movie OGN and Peanuts Off Model are now Amazon’s no-such-thing-exists, what-you-talkin-about-Willis pages. However, Simon & Schuster, who distribute these books to the book trade for Boom!, still have pages for them. I have no idea what, …
Peanuts 23
Hitting comic book stores tomorrow is issue 23 of the Peanuts comic book series from Kaboom!, featuring stories by Vicki Scott, Donna Almandrala, and the power team of Jeff Dyer and Robert Pope (whose story is shown in full below.) And while I’m covering Peanuts comic book news, Comic Book Resources …
Peanuts movie trailer!
Here ya go! (If you’re getting this via email, click on the words “Peanuts movie trailer” above to get taken to the web page.
Peanuts movie coverage in USA Today
USAToday today has an article on next year’s Peanuts movie, including a number of images – very smily images, but these are publicity shots.
the cookie cutters came
The repeatedly-delayed Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set finally exists. It features three cookie cutters: a very-Peanutsy Snoopy head one, an acceptably in the range christmas tree, and, well, a mitten. Accompanying them is a 48 page paperback cookbook of cookie recipes bearing names like “Woodstock’s Gingerbread Cookie Heroes”, “Spike’s Biscochitos Cut-Out Cookies”, …
Answers!
I’ve been getting both questions and answers in my email… and since the questions are ones that I can answer, it’s a win all around! AAUGH Blog reader Jim went above and beyond the call of duty in answering the question about whether the reprints of of Peanuts and More Peanuts would …