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Peanuts specials stay on ABC

It’s a little early for me to get my usual requests to note the date, time, and channel of the upcoming airings of the key “classic”  specials (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and A Charlie Brown Christmas), but I can get one part of the …

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Now shipping

2009’s Great Pumpkin, 2010 edition

Last year I took a look at a “Special Hallmark Edition” book adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. As I theorized then, this year’s Running Press edition appears to be the same adaptation, but with some of the differences which we saw between the Hallmark and Running Press …

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Upcoming releases

A further look at The Peanuts Collection

Ah, time to return to our flip-through of my upcoming book, The Peanuts Collection, which the publisher seems to think folks will want — it’s tied for 70th place in terms of print run for books announced for October release. (For those of you not in the book biz – …

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Schulz/Peanuts news

Political Cartoon by Charles Schulz

Here’s a find! In mid-July, 1960, Schulz did a run of strips about Lucy trying to become a political cartoonist: Well, one newspaper asked for a copy of Lucy’s cartoon – and Schulz sent it to them! Click through and take a look. I sure do.

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Animated Peanuts

He’s Your Dog and Christmas Tales coming to DVD

Despite the talk about the upcoming Happiness is a Blanket, Charlie Brown, that’s not the next DVD up. Here are a couple that will be shipping in the next couple months. He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown offers up one of the early specials… one that’s already on DVD on the …

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Classic finds

Schulz recycles

Ach! I was doing a little research, and discovered that the Schulz prose story was really not original to The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death, as I suggested in this earlier post. Rather, it was an edited-down-for-length version of the story that Snoopy is seen writing in this …

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Classic finds

Schulz does prose

I am one shamefaced AAUGH Blogger. Today I received a copy of a book – not something obscurely old, but something that’s in print now, and has been in print since shortly before this blog launched over a decade ago – with an original piece of Schulz work. No, not …

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Upcoming releases

I got my book!

It’s been a few months since I finished my work on the writing and editing of The Peanuts Collection, and it’s still a few months before its in stores… but in the big leagues, they print the books months before they hit the stores. So I’m sitting here with my …

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More Peanuts at Comic-Con

You may have been hearing a lot about the Comic-Con in San Diego lately. I’ve been attending for a couple decades now, and have watched it evolve from a pretty-big-for-a-comic-convention event to a rather insane pop culture extravaganza, where movie and TV studios are bringing their previews, their stars, their …

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Animated Peanuts

The Happiness is a Blanket preview at Comic-Con

As mentioned, I had to miss the Peanuts 60th anniversary panel today at Comic-Con. I missed what I hear was a good Q&A session. However, the panel’s Andy Beall, a cool animation dude, took pity n your poor AAUGH Blogger and gave me a run through the parts of the …

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