Happiness Is a Blanket
Coming in February from Running Press Kids is Happiness Is a Blanket, Charlie Brown, which would appear to be an adaptation of a new Peanuts special that the LA Flash animation studio Wildbrain is bringing to life. Is this a direct-to-video or direct-to-iTunes release, or will it see release to …
A Tale of Two Peanuts Programs
Had you gone to see a performance of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown at a theater in the late 1960s, you might have had a chance to get a souvenir program like this one: …or maybe a souvenir program like this one: “But wait,” I hear you cry, “they …
The Jackets of Christmas Yet To Come
Here’s the first visuals of this fall’s upcoming book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas:
Cartoonists – want the sense that Schulz is looking over your shoulder?
Here’s an interesting item up for auction – a drawing board from Schulz’s studio. Now, this wasn’t Schulz’s own board, which remains properly ensconced in the Schulz Museum. No, this was the board used by Dale Hale, who worked in the studio most notably on the Peanuts comic book stories. …
Peanuts Summer Specials
When cruising Netflix’s streamable content the other night in the search for something for my daughter to watch, I stumbled across a packaging of Peanuts videos that I had not noticed before: Peanuts Summertime Specials. It strings together It’s Spring Training, Charlie Brown, the all-too-overlooked Charlie Brown’s All-Stars, and It Was …
Art Linkletter passes
Various news sources are reporting the death of Art Linkletter, an entertaining man who passed at age 97. The relevancy to the AAUGH Blog is that Linkletter is the author of two books which Schulz illustrated: Kids Say the Darndest Things and Kids Still Say the Darndest Things, featuring tales …
There were dictionaries pre-Peanuts
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is not a Peanuts book. Oh, it has the word “peanut” in it, but then it has many words. It’s a copy of The Rainbow Dictionary, from 1947, years before “Peanuts” began. It’s a kid’s dictionary, with simple defiintions (often, really just …
Triumph!
That’s me, holding up the leather-bound Easton Press edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition, which I scooped up with a little recent birthday money. With this purchase, I now own every edition of print adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Well, every one that I …
Every dog should have a license
If you (like me) are in California, then you may just have a chance to get Snoopy himself on your license plate. There’s a drive now for California to offer plates decorated with a happily strolling Snoopy on your plate – which would add $50 to the price, raising money …
Peanuts licensing rights sold
For those of you interested in Peanuts-as-a-business, this is major: United Media’s licensing arm has been sold for $175,000,000 to the licensing company Iconix. Peanuts is most of that business.