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 …
Hello Snoopy
The thing that interests me about this book is the publisher: This shaped kiddie book is published by Sanrio, who are far better known for their original creations such as Hello Kitty and Badatz Maru. It wasn’t until I got this book that I thought about how much the Japanese …
Oops, big savings and free shipping before Christmas!
I missed the fact that BN is claiming that (unlike Amazon), their free shipping will still get there before Christmas… making the bargain all the better. So in addition to getting Celebrating Peanuts for 57% off cover, you can get The Complete Calvin and Hobbes for 54% off, or even …
CORRECTIONL a big coupon
BN is doing a big coupon deal, just good today and tomorrow – 20% off of any one item, and that’s off of their already discounted prices. So Celebrating Peanuts, which lists for $75, and they usually price at $45, and which they are now running under an everyone-gets-member-prices deal …