Surprise episode: Benjamin L. Clark, curator of the Schulz Museum
The AAUGH Blog Podcast returns from retirement for a special episode. The AAUGH Blogger talks to Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark about his work, and about the book that the two of them wrote together, the new Schulz Museum project Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the …
Batter up Charlie Brown? Why, are you planning to deep fry him??
It looks like Simon & Schuster’s Simon Spotlight imprint is keeping a reasonably aggressive bimonthly schedule for their Peanuts Graphic Novel series, as they’ve just announced the third one, coming in May. This will be the baseball-themed Batter Up, Charlie Brown!, and like the other volumes will include one new …
The AAUGH Blogger interviews Nat Gertler
AAUGH Blogger: Hey, Nat, what’s that you got there? Nat: It’s the A Charlie Brown Christmas Mini Puzzles box set thingy. AAUGH Blogger: Oh, a thingy, is it? What has it got in it. Nat: It has these two bags of very small jigsaw puzzle pieces. AAUGH Blogger: Do they …
Peanuts in letterbox format
Yesterday, my postal carrier brought to me my big pile of the new Peanuts stamps, as well as the book that I’d ordered. Now, a Peanuts book being published by the United States Postal Service may sound like an inherently strange thing; other arms of the US government have issued …
Announced!
A while back (I was thinking it was 2 or 3 years ago, but it turns out to be nine, egad) I mentioned that I owned this page of original art from the 198os TV parody comic book To Be Announced!, featuring writer Derek McCulloch and artist Mike Bannon poking their …
It’s the Great Pumpkin and Flashlight, CB
Halloween is just around the corner, but I’m already seeing books coming for next halloween… namely, a board book adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. This is being published as part of the PI Kids line, which focuses on “interactive” books, and they’re doing this one like they did the …
Book release event!
The Schulz Museum is having a release event for the book I just co-wrote with Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark (and with contributions from dozens of interesting folks). Here is the official announcement: Saturday, Nov. 12, 6:00 pm Celebrating 100 Years of Charles M. Schulz Al Roker (TODAY Show) …
Meet Peanuts!
One of the complaints that Schulz had about his strip being named Peanuts against his wishes is that it lead some people to think that one of the characters in the strip was named “Peanuts.” That was brought to mind when I read this particular strip in a book that …
a Peanuts BOOK item I want
When I was a kid I collected trading cards. I wasn’t big into sports, so I mainly went with Star Wars cards, and things of that ilk. But now, as an adult, there is no joy in that inefficiency of purchasing, buying many, many duplicates en route to getting whatever …
A dilemma solved
AAUGH Blog reader Mike saw me expressing ambivalence about whether to preorder the new $99.99 edition of the A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack just to get the liner notes booklet… and he noted something that I missed: the same publisher is offering a new one-CD deluxe version for a far …