A double-dose of Pumpkin
I am now seeing reports that ABC has added another airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for this year, airing it in a half-hour slot on the 28th in addition to the hour long slot of Peanuts goodness the night before. Their airing it instead of an episode …
Linus and Lucy 2: The Revenge!
AAUGH Blog reader Dave from Nashville steered me to some tweets from George Winston, who recorded the very successful album Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi. Looks like his next album will return to that well, and will be called Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi …
Planning ahead for next Halloween!
You can now preorder next year’s adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown… which seems likely to be the same adaptation as the one currenty available in Hallmark stores. You can also preorder Sparky: The Live and Art of Charles Schulz, the bio-for-kids shipping in March. As I’ve noted …
The paperback Peanuts – now in hardcover!
Remember Peanuts: The Art of Charles M Schulz, that cool-looking hardcover that Chip Kidd put together? And then they came out with the paperback, and it had about 30 pages of additional material? Well, now they’ve come out with a discount hardcover edition, and judging by the page count, it’s …
Now available for preorder: Complete Peanuts 1975-1976
The Complete Peanuts: 1975-1976, the thirteenth volume in the series, is now available for preorder. This one covers the halfway point of the Peanuts run. The cover of this one will have Peppermint Patty. The foreword is by Robert Smigel, the puppetry hand behind Insult the Comic Dog and the …
It’s a Discount Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
I was checking out my remainder book source, BookCloseouts, and noticed that they had some good deals on books for the impending Halloweeniday: The Great Pumpkin Strikes Again, an out-of-print kids storybook for $1.99, half off the cover price. Baby Snoopy’s Pumpkin out-of-print board book for $2.99, half off the …
On why you can’t find a dog for Christmas, and free stuff I got
So I’m at a Big Buy store yesterday, and notice that they don’t have the new edition of I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown on their new release rack. So out of curiosity, I head over to their children’s section to see if it’s there, and I find …
Snoopy & the moon are on the move!
In the wake of my earlier message in the Japanese book about Snoopy and the space program, eager AAUGH Blog reader Jim said that if the Schulz Museum still had up their exhibit on Snoopy and NASA, I should recommend you go see it. Well, the answer is that no, …
You’re a Good DVD, Charlie Brown
The official announcement came out today: the animated version of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is coming to DVD for the first time in January. I’ve known for a while that this was coming, because they interviewed me for the new featurette on the making of this special. Don’t …
Astronaut Snoopy
It’s been a while since I placed a Japanese book order (and I’ve missed a few cool things along the way because of it), but I might not be able to pass this one by. Astronaut Snoopy and the Universe has introductions by Japanese astronauts, and in addition to the …