There are two events coming up – one Peanuts event, one non-Peanuts – that have me thinking about some somewhat bigger matters. Forgive me if I get a bit off-topic for this blog. The events are (in the order they’re taking place): 24 Hour Comics Day lands on October 3rd …

Yes, it is that most special, magical time of year, a time that brings joy to the heart. No, it’s not when a young man’s fancy turns to love. It’s when a middle-aged blogger gets a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas! It is not, mind you, a …

February brings Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends, which is a 32 page booklet packaged with a figures of the two characters.

The AAUGH.com Reference Library has now been unpacked after our recent move. Well, mostly. There’s still a box or two that I have to locate – most frustratingly, this includes the box that has all of our various book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. But meanwhile, the Library continues …

It seemed like the flow of biographies of Schulz got interrupted by the release of the Michaelis biography – what had been a flow of little bios disappeared for a while, even though most of those bios were for the kids and thus not in conflict with that big yellow …

For a while, we’ve had something called Peanuts Philosophers listed as coming next March. Well, that’s still the case, but now I know what it is – it’s a reprint of a cute little set of books (Snoopy’s Philosophy, The Wisdom of Charlie Brown, The World According to Lucy, and …

After my recent post on next year’s book edition of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, alert AAUGH reader Scott tipped me off that there was a new hardcover of that popping up in Hallmark stores. So I hied myself over to the local Hallmark (I find that hieing is …

Coming in August 2010 is It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The early signs suggest that this will be along the lines of last year’s new adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Now shipping is a Charles Schulz desktop calendar – notice I’m saying Schulz, not Peanuts, because it’s not Peanuts. In fact, this maybe the first calendar made up of non-Peanuts Schulz material. Instead, this is a mixture of material from Schulz’s work for Warner Press (the stuff that’s collecting in …

I missed this news when it occurred in July — Robert L. Short, who wrote a series of books looking at biblical themes in Peanuts, passed away. The three books he wrote about Peanuts, starting with the best-selling The Gospel According To Peanuts, through The Parables of Peanuts, and ending …