Getting Japanese books in America
Now that you can order some Japanese books through the US Amazon, it makes things so much easier to get such books. Well, some of them. Dadgummit, you can’t get that Japanese adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas that way. But here’s some things you can get; click on the cover to get …
For those of you who always wanted to punch out Snoopy
Now shipping: Build-Your-Own Snoopy and Woodstock!: Punch-out and Construct Your Own Desktop Peanuts Companions! (at least, that’s what they call it at Amazon.)
Return of the alternate covers
After having taken a break from issuing rarer alternative covers for each issue of their Peanuts comic book, Kaboom has returned to the practice with the most recent issue, #17. Once again, they are doing “first appearance” covers, but starting with this one, it’s the first appearance of a phrase. …
The Doctor Is In, The Pictures Are Not
Following the example of The Gospel According to Peanuts, there have been a number of essay books over the years that have used Peanuts strips as a launching point for certain topics, most often religious. In 1981, Warner Press (the publishing arm of The Church Of God, which Schulz was very involved …
Scanimationy books today
I was putting together an upcoming post on ordering Japanese Peanuts books through Amazon US, when I discovered… well, remember when I mentioned how I was looking forward to the upcoming “Scanimation” book, with images that animate as you move the page? It looks like in Japan they already have …
A Charlie Brown Scholarly Christmas
I just got to read the article “Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Religion, and the Conventions of the Television Genre“, which appears in the current issue of The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Written by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind (currently of Washington And Lee University), this …
Snoopy horses around
I’ve run into a few books lately about other dogs named Snoopy… which is hardly anything new, as there were books about dogs named Snoopy before there was Peanuts. But this is a first, I think. It’s by Snoopy. And he’s not a dog… (Note that the story is “as told …
What’s up with the Artist’s Edition
I’m starting to get emails asking about where that big Peanuts Artist’s Edition that Amazon said would ship at the end of April is. It’s not out yet. It’s not just Amazon who doesn’t have it yet. Nobody does. The book is late…. but not unexpectedly so. Publishers who focus …
Snoopy’s darker days
Found at Amazon Japan, and actually available to be shipped from Japan via Amazon US: PEANUTS meets SPECIAL PRODUCT DESIGN 2. I assume that’s supposed to be a tan, and not African American Surfing Snoopy… but you never know. The volume comes with a free shopping bag bearing this image.
More on that Japanese Dr. Snoopy book
Friend of the blog Ray gave me a reason that the Japanese edition of Dr. Snoopy’s Advice for Pet Owners I talked about a week back had the odd price of 762 yen: because once a 5% sales tax was tacked on that, it becomes a nice round no-small-change-needed 800 yen. …