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 …
Franklin in action
What you’re looking at is a Franklin action figure – I’m told it’s the first figure for this fine fellow. It’s part of this new A Charlie Brown Christmas action figure set… and if that gives you a moment of pause, it should. Franklin wasn’t in the special A Charlie …
A Charlie Brown Christmas online, free
Hey, ABC has put A Charlie Brown Christmas and Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales, online, for free viewing (with ads)! (Although for some reason they’re paying for ad placement for the online video of their December 8 airing, which was edited; the above link should be the full-length edition.) And if …
Colourful cover of a Peanuts coloring book
Despite my broad interest in Peanuts books, I don’t generally pursue coloring books, but in my search for interesting Peanuts images, I couldn’t resist getting this coloring book… excuse me, a book of “pictures to colour”, it is British after all. Look at the rendering of color, the rosy cheeks. …
Happy Beethoven’s birthday!
I hope you’re all eenjoying your Beethoven’s birthday celebrations. But while you’re exchanging your presents and singing your Beethoven carols,let us reflect on the fact that so many have forgotten thetrue meaning behind the holiday: Choose to care.