You are Good Folks, AAUGH Blog Readers
First off, thanks to all of the AAUGH Blog readers who sent in suggestions about how I can get the scent of smoke out of my Braille edition of Home Is On Top Of A Doghouse (various suggestions of laundry products, baking soda, and exposure to sun). I do now …
Good for two senses, not so good for the third
I scored myself one of the TwinVision books, which are versions of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy series of books with braille pages and raised versions of the images inserted, for blind Peanuts fans. This time I got a copy of Home is on Top of a Doghouse, and …
Ooh, La La, Peanuts!
So the other day, we had a “French book day” here at the AAUGH.com skyscraper, with two separate shipments of French books arriving, each representing some triumph. Back in 1968, Hallmark issued a cool little quartet of strip collections called The Peanuts Philosophers (soon to be reprinted, as it happens), …
A (probably) Schulz art auction
The National Cartoonist Society have put together a charity auction to help a family having particular trouble… and they have a piece of Peanuts art for sale. And this piece is bugging me. It’s familiar… but I can’t tell you where its from. Folks want to be absolutely certain it’s …
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown now shipping
Released today: (And no, I don’t have my copy yet, so I haven’t seen how the documentary featurette came out. I’ll presume I didn’t look too foolish; that’s the magic of editing!)
Peanuts past and present
To follow up a post about a Peanuts book that even I wouldn’t buy, I suppose it’s fitting to do a post about something I normally wouldn’t buy – Peanuts figurines – that I’m actually considering in this case. Dark Horse has two upcoming two-figure releases in their Then And …
A Schulz book that will probably only exist if you order it…
…and you shouldn’t. Amazon is now listing a book with the title of Charles M. Schulz and the ungainly subtitle of Cartoonist, Comic strip, Peanuts, Secular humanism, Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), Fort Campbell, Combat Infantryman Badge, Art Instruction Schools, She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown. Forty-nine bucks. 76 pages. …
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 …