The “new” Schulz bio
The latest in the string of bios-aimed-to-stuff-school-library-shelves is now shipping, with the imaginative title Charles Schulz, part of the “Basic Biographies” series. Only, it may not really be a new biography. I was thrown off by the fact that someone who wrote years ago as “Cynthia Fitterer Klingel” is actually …
The new Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown book
The new Running Press Kids book adaptation of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is now shipping. It suffers from the same problem as many of these adaptations, showing all of the plot and none of the humor of the special, relying on very flatly-presented text and various pictures only a …
Where to get music and box set boxes
A few months ago, I posted about a then-upcoming new Vince Guaraldi-focused George Winston CD. Now, alert AAUGH Blog reader Doug points out that it is now available for preorder and will ship February 2. And on the topic of things that come in the email, besides information on the …
The end of the parade
So I’m watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last night (I’m a sucker for a Muppet guest appearance), and maybe halfway through, there’s an ad for Knott’s Berry Farm – if you watched the show, you may not have seen it, I assume it was a local ad for those in …
10 years ago today…
…the goodbye strip, the last of the daily Peanuts run (Sundays would continue for a few weeks) appears. In some ways, that feels like yesterday. But then, the strip has never gone away. With all of the readers of the strip, only a small portion ahve read every strip, so …
Non-Peanuts discounts
This is a list I did up for an online discussion group, and figured I’d post it to the comics fans here as well. It’s a bunch of graphic novels and comics collections, mostly at $3.99 apiece (and that’s for hardcovers originally costing $19.99-$24.99). Really, that’s about a cost of …
Last thought for the year
If the one on the left is It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown, shouldn’t the one on the right be It Was A Shorter Summer, Charlie Brown? Happy 2010, from a guy with far too many Peanuts books. And more to come!
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but are you award-winning?
I hope everyone is having good holidays, finding joy and happiness and yes, even though it may be materialistic, I hope you’re getting good gifts. Good gifts make people happy, both those who give them and those who get them. Among the gifts I got this year was an audition …
A puzzle or a riddle?
The other day, I posted this cover: … with the caption “As for the title, I’m as befuddled as Charlie Brown is by the title of his book” Several alert Japanese-literate AAUGH Blog readers dropped a line to let me know that the title is Snoopy’s nazo nazo kyoushitsu, which …
A foreign view of Schulz’s America
As a publisher, I’m being made happy by this article on the new French edition of Schulz’s Youth, which looks at this collection of Schulz’s Christian youth cartoons as window onto American religiosity. It’s an interesting outsider perspective on the work, and I look forward to seeing the response to …