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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Psychiatric advice from a Peanuts character may cost a nickel, but life advice is free, courtesy of the folks at MetLife. The insurance company has dozens of 24-page booklets available for reading at their website, illustrated with ten or so Peanuts images apiece. You can even call and request that …

Schulz pal Billie Jean King, who wrote the introduction for the forthcoming The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 as well as the earlier Snoopy’s Tennis Book (plus her own book Tennis Love, which Schulz illustrated) has been selected by Obama to receive the Medal of Freedom. It will be presented on August …