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Dale Hale and the “Peanuts” Comic Book: The Interview « Hogan’s Alley

My interview with Dale Hale, artist on the old Dell/Gold Key “Peanuts” comic books. This is the same interview that’s on the AAUGH.com site, but the Hogan’s Alley site is running it with the images that were used in the print edition.

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Animated Peanuts

Team Snoopy

Now shipping is Happiness is… Peanuts: Team Snoopy, a DVD combining the TV special Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown with some sports-oriented material from The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show. I love the phrasing “An All-New Collection” There’s not any new material, just a new combination of things… and …

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New releases

Peanuts – Free Comic Book Day edition

If you headed to your comic book shop today for Free Comic Book Day (and if not, why not? I mean, which word in the phrase “free comic book” don’t you like?), then you may have grabbed up the Kaboom!/Boom Studios Free Comic Book Day flip book – half Peanuts, …

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Administrative

In the interest of accuracy

I am seeing comments suggesting that the Kirby credit on the Avengers movie may not be as small as earlier reports suggested; I have not verified for myself yet. Still, ABuckForJack.com is a good idea.

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General

The difference between enjoyment and respect

Enjoying a creative work and being respectful to the talented folks who created it are two different things, and that conflict shows up a lot these days. It shows up in all forms of intellectual property abuse… which in this Internet age most obviously includes piracy of music and movies …

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Upcoming releases

Free Peanuts comic book

Coming up this Saturday is one of the greatest holidays on the calendar – Free Comic Book Day! Just think about those words; is there any one of them not to like?   And to make it all the better, this time there’s a free Peanuts comic book to be …

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Upcoming releases

First look at the next A Charlie Brown Christmas book edition

Christmas may only last twelve days, but our coverage of book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas goes all year long! The next one coming up is a booklet that will come with a little A Charlie Brown Christmas snow globe. This ships in September, but you can preorder it …

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Quick notes

I stumbled across this Mo Willems doodles of his Gerald & Piggie characters as Charlie Brown and Lucy. We here at the AAUGH Blog are big fans of Willems’s serieses of Pigeon (the first one may be the finest comic book yet this century), Elephant & Piggie, and Knuffle Bunny… …

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Discounts

Preorder the Art of Peanuts Animation now

At the moment, you can preorder The Art And Making of Peanuts Animation for $20.83, which is a pretty steep discount for a $40 book… and remember that if the price goes down at any time between now and when the book ships this fall, you’ll get that lower price. …

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Upcoming releases

Easter Beagle sound button cover

I love writing headlines that sound like they came from a random word generator. Anyway, here is the cover for the next edition of the It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown adaptation, this one with buttons to push for sound and music. Preorder it now, get it next January, in …

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