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free ebook take 2

That ebook edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas that I pointed out was free on iTunes the other day? Well, it’s free for your Kindle at the moment as well. And speaking of free ebooks… A while back, I offered AAUGH Blog readers a free ebook copy of my new …

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more on those coloring books

I pointed Rich Johnston (of the website Bleeding Cool) toward the various coloring books being produced by the person who made that apparently unauthorized Peanuts volume, and he covers it here. New titles are still appearing, including some Beatles-and-Elvis coloring books! (Sniff, sniff… is that lawyers I smell?)

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Fangs!

Those old Peanuts comics from the 1950s and ’60s often had things that you would not find in the strip, as witness this image.

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free A Charlie Brown Christmas ebook

AAUGH Blog reader Jason points out that the iTunes bookstore currently has a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas for free! This is a digital presentation of that adaptation with Tom Brannon art that Running Press has been reusing repeatedly in recent years, and is not the cool interactive …

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Peanuts for teachers, and other humans

I was doing my usual work searching out Peanuts books for us all to marvel at when I hit something I hadn’t stumbled across before: licensed Peanuts material meant for teachers and classrooms. While it’s not likely that those of us outside of school will need, say, a lesson plan …

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Animated Peanuts

Useful news if you program your DVR seven years in advance

ABC has paid to keep their rights to the key Peanuts specials until 2020.

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Another Peanuts Christmas book… and it’s my fault

As some of you may recall, last year saw the publication of the book Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, which reprinted two Peanuts stories that had appeared in women’s magazines in the 1960s. This was a book that I had thought up, and that I had taken to the publisher Fantagraphics …

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A thing that no longer exists, and a thing that will not exist

As predicted, that unlicensed Charlie Brown and Snoopy coloring book that I blogged about the other day has been yanked from Amazon and other sites. However, the other works of Mrs. Beatrice Harrison remain available. After five straight years of Hallmark putting out a new book editions of A Charlie …

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Conservative Peanuts are Coming

Regnery Publishing has announced that they will be coming out with a series of a dozen Peanuts books aimed at the 4-8 year old set, intended to teach American history and “what makes America strong”. The first three books are slated for next fall, coming out under their Little Patriot …

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Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name

Some folks talk about trademark as a way big, evil corporations “steal language” to keep the little guy from getting ahead. Actually, trademark legally exists to protect the little guy, the consumer, by letting them know that an item that bears a trademark meets the standards of the company that …

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