A couple of non-Schulz notes
Since I have this audience here, I’m going to exploit it a bit for a good cause. The wife of cartoonist Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo, has a bad health situation that requires ongoing home care. The Sakais have insurance, but this expense is above and beyond what is …
This blog would’ve been simpler in 1958
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com reference library is the December, 1958 issue of Better Homes and Gardens, the popular woman’s magazine. Now, if you’ve bought Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, you would’ve seen two Christmas stories that Schulz did for other women’s magazines during the 1960s… but the original Peanuts story in …
Review: Charlie Brown and Friends
I’m already on the record as liking the Amp! Comics For Kids line, as you can see in my review of the first volume in the series, Snoopy: Cowabunga!. Let me stick with that review, in general – these full-color strip collections of reasonable thickness, at a reasonable price, and …
For those of you now planning your last-minute Christmas gifts
With an announced release date of December 23rd comes Be Loving, yet another gift book in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series. That means we have four of these books coming this year, in addition to the ones already released. Maybe if you went to the gym more …
Now shipping: Peanuts volume 3
Amazon is now shipping the third trade paperback collection of the Peanuts comic book series (at the moment, they’re listing it as a “preorder”, but they are actually shipping copies). The first Peanuts comic book stories written by ye old AAUGH Blogger make up just a small portion of this full …
Peanuts: Be Overwhelmed
Coming in September is Be Joyful, another book in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series. And with that, we are now up to eight books and one box set coming out in September. Goodness only knows what next year will look like, with the added weight of the …
Scanimated Peanuts
Coming in September is Peanuts: a Scanimation Book. Okay, so what’s “scanimation”? Actually, it’s pretty cool. These books are slightly mechanical (as, say, a pop-up book is). When you turn a page, a clear sheet with bars printed on it is pulled across a graphic below it, causing some animation. …
Steep Grade Ahead
The solicitation for issue 18 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book is out: All Sally wanted was to return to school and continue where she left off. Nobody told her that every single year she would have to break in a whole new set of teachers! How can she progress …
What’s slightly amusing me at the moment
Peanuts buffs are likely aware of Creative Associates, which is the Charles Schulz studio operation that generates material and approves licensed goods. I’ve only just now for the first time heard about Creative Associates International., an unrelated global services organization that has sometimes been accused of being a CIA front. …
Peanuts Volume 4
Coming in October is Peanuts Volume 4, the fourth collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book. This will cover issues 9 through 12, which means that it will have three stories written by Yours Truly. It’s preorderable now, of course.