When was Charlie Brown’s All-Stars planned?
I had been laboring under the working assumption that the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas was planned as a one-off, with people willing to do more specials if it was a success, but with that seeming unlikely to most involved. In his book A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of …
The Latina Peanuts character
I do at times field questions about Dolores, the Latina Peanuts character. And if some of you out there are saying “Who?!?”, believe me, I don’t blame you. Dolores, you see, isn’t in any of the Peanuts strips. And she isn’t in any of the animated specials. Isn’t in the …
Beagle Deluxe
Coming early next year is a “deluxe edition” book adaptation of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. The current listing says it’s a paperback, but I doubt that; given the $16.95 price point, it’s most likely the Easter equivalent of the big, square Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin hardcovers …
Uninformed musings on Peanuts DVD future
The recent Peanuts animation released, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, seems to have met with general (albeit not universal) approval. And I know there were thoughts about doing more of these releases. But there is something that happened between the time that Happiness was started and when it …
Facelifts at the AAUGH Blog
I’ve upgraded the AAUGH Blog, moving it to a new host which will put a somewhat more powerful engine under the hood. This has already had some fallout – it’s meant replacing the old blog-by-mail system with Feedburner, which has pluses and minuses (those of you who want blog updates …
Celebrating Snoopy
The new hardcover from UK Peanuts publisher Ravette, Celebrating Peanuts, is not, as I guessed earlier, a reprint of Peanuts Guide to Life. Nor is it a reprint or abridgement of Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years. Instead, it’s an original strip collection, covering the entire run of the strip (well, it …
Good riddance to bad bio
That plagiarized Schulz… excuse me, “Schultz” biography for the Kindle I complained about a few weeks back? It’s gone. If you try to go to the Amazon page which had it, you get an error. It hasn’t disappeared from the Kindles or hard disks of those of us who purchased …
Trudeau tips his hat
Doonesbury ended a week-long run on the topic of the now-failed rapture prediction with a tip of the hat to Peanuts.
Sparkle Comics
I just completed my run of Peanuts appearance in the comic book series Sparkle Comics, which wasn’t that tricky to do – they were only in one issue. Peanuts started in issue 33 (Feb-Mar 1954), and the series never saw an issue 34. Sparkle was published by United Features Syndicate, …
A calming strip
As the supposed zero hour approaches, I realized I should’ve posted this earlier: