Another Comic-Con Peanuts panel
My aged Mac just started refusing to boot up, so forgive me if this cut-and-paste job on my iPad doesn’t look smooth… Snoopy, his sister Belle, and other Sibling relationships in Peanuts Though he himself was an only child, Charles Schulz recognized the potential for drama and humor inherent in …
Free Charlie Brown’s All-Stars app
AAUGH Blog reader Pat scored his second useful tip of the week by alerting me to something that’s going on at Starbucks outlets… something I never would’ve discovered myself, because coffee ain’t my cuppa tea. Starbucks gives away some piece of culture each week, and this week it’s the new …
Nat at Comic-Con
The Comic-Con schedule for Friday just went up, and they listed the one panel I’m slated to be on. Room 18 might be a little hard to find (it’s usually used for retailer meetings rather than mainstream convention panels), but I’ll be glad to see you there, two weeks from …
Peanuts panel at Comic-Con
The folks behind San Diego’s famed Comic-Con have announced the first day of panels, and there is a Peanuts panel. Sounds like it could be interesting; Peanuts and Seth Green are to me two great tastes that I am not certain will go well together, but I’m more than willing to try …
Nitpicker’s notes on the Artist’s Edition
Once upon a time, I worked in Quality Assurance at a computer company, and discovered that even after leaving work, I would be finding bugs and crashing computers even in my leisure activities. I crashed a whole bank of information computers at Disney World. I discovered a bug in an …
Peanuts Artist’s Edition unboxing
I just got my copy of the Peanuts Artist’s Edition, which you too can order from Amazon, and it is a great big, lovely book. I made this video of me opening it and flipping through it – you can skip the first minute-and-a-half of the unboxing if you don’t …
Peanuts at Comic-Con
There will once again be an official Peanuts booth (#1637) at the famed San Diego Comic-Con, which is coming up in a few weeks (July 23-27, to be precise)… although if you’re thinking about going, you are months too late, tickets are long since sold out. The booth will once …
The Artist’s Edition IS coming
Amazon just updated their page for the Peanuts Artist’s Edition. They say it will be in stock next week, which means they probably already have the shipping information from the publisher. My copy is scheduled to arrive here Wednesday. And their price, while not quite as cheap as it was, is …
Books are shipping
My copy of POW! arrived yesterday, so that’s shipping. And hardcover Complete Peanuts volume 21 and the first volume of the paperback edition of Complete Peanuts started shipping last month, and I forgot to note it. Now it’s noted.
Digital Snoopy disappears
A few days ago, I noted the appearance of Snoopy’s Happy Day: A Finger-Puppet Book in the Amazon catalog. Today, I notice it’s gone; if you go to the page for the book, you’ll find that it is now titled UNTITLED, written by that great sage, TBA. Is it something that …