Look out! Here comes… POW!
Coming in July is POW!, the third Peanuts book in the AMP Comics for Kids line of full-color strip collections. I like the first one, and the second one comes out in a little over a week. This one is Charlie Brown-themed.
When being the AAUGH Blogger gets surreal
Some days, you wake up and find that you’ve been repeatedly cited in an article (and called out on a small error) by this guy: that’s Eddie Deezen, who played Eugene in Grease and Grease 2, and was one of the faces who showed up regularly in films that you’d …
Snoopy license plate not yet close to needed numbers
If you Californians want to see the above image on your license plates, then you’d best step up and order one (or two!) for yourselves. Despite press coverage (I’ve seen it in the papers and caught it on radio), at this point less than one third of the 7500 …
The two that got away
There is psychological economics concept called “loss aversion”, which relates (as I loosely understand it) to the idea that we feel certain sort of economic losses far more than we feel gains; that you will remember that time you filled up and a minute later saw a gas station that …
Covers! We’ve got covers!
Now we have the covers for all those upcoming Fantagraphics books. First, let’s take a look at the paperback editions of The Complete Peanuts. The design we saw earlier has been scrapped. This is volume 1: and add in volume 2: and you get the box set: And besides those, …
Good Ol’ Charles
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is The Graphic Art of Charles, the book for a 1985 exhibition at The Oakland Museum (which then traveled through nine other museums through 1988). Now, if that title sounds a little odd to you, well, it may be unique. Every other …
Who Cares, Charlie Brown? I do!
The solicitations for fall books just hit… and boy, did they ever hit hard for the Peanuts book collector. Whatever you collect, you’ll have something to buy. If you like your strip collections complete and hardcover, you’ve got volume 22 of The Complete Peanuts, as well as the box set …
Dutch gold
I’m tempted to get this upcoming Dutch Golden Book, despite having to pay for shipping from England. It has that certain charm.
Preview of Batter Up, Charlie Brown!
Fantagraphics has posted a video preview of Batter Up, Charlie Brown!, a small baseball-themed strip collection coming in April and available for preorder now. It looks like a nice little book.
Nat’s Most ADJECTIVE Comics
Folks have asked me to mention my own, non-Peanuts projects on this blog, so here’s the latest little oddity: The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever! is a creative comics game in book form. I’ve taken some tales from classic romance comic books and reworked the dialog with blanks calling for …