Blog
Upcoming releases

More Schulz bios

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 …

Read More
Upcoming releases

Peanuts Philosophers

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 …

Read More
New releases

Is this Great Pumpkin 2010, here in 2009?

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 …

Read More
Upcoming releases

GREAT PUMPKIN 2010: Plan your future accordingly

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.

Read More
Now shipping

Schulz calendar shipping

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 …

Read More
Schulz/Peanuts news

The Gospel of Peanuts author passes away

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 …

Read More
Upcoming releases

More Peanuts DVDs

Coming in October is The Peanuts 1970’s Collection Volume 1, which continues the sequential release of the Peanuts specials (as well as the inappropriate use of an apostrophe in the title.) This set has two disks with half a dozen specials, including two that have never been on DVD before …

Read More
Now shipping

Now shipping: Complete Peanuts boxed set

The Complete Peanuts 1971-1974 boxed set is now shipping.

Read More
Now shipping

Now shipping — Complete Peanuts volume 12

It’s been a few weeks since there’s been a post here by me. Part of that has been because of a relative lack of news I can report, more of it has probably been a personal life that’s a bit full – my second child was born a couple days …

Read More
General

not real Schulz

In the wake of yesterday’s post about the MetLife brochures, folks were asking whether the art on those might be original Schulz drawings. The answer is almost certainly not. While Sparky drew product art in the early days, by the time MetLife hooked up with Peanuts his art efforts were …

Read More