Hey, AAUGH Blog fans – this Friday I’ll be at Captain Blue Hen Comics in Newark, Delaware, from 4 to 7 PM. I’ll be there to sign copies of Licensable Bearâ„¢ and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel (among other things), and the last hour will be …

The AAUGH Blog has readers in a surprising range of places, as an email from Chris in Germany serves to remind me. He weighs in on the German Love is a Book with Seven Seals title, which we had previously discussed here and here, suggesting that the “book with seven …

Don’t Give Up, Charlie Brown! and Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday! are two new hardback gift books that I previously told you were coming in June from Harvest House. Now you can take a look a sample of the interiors of both books: Don’t Give Up and It’s Your Birthday.

Here’s an early look at the cover for the upcoming Peanuts Lunchtime Cookbook, shipping in August. I’ve been upgrading the blog software lately, and any time you try to improve things, you’re apt to mess other things up. So if you notice any problems, let me know!

One of the cool things about being the AAUGH.com guy is that sometimes people find something and send it to you. For example, AAUGH Blog reader Scott in Michigan came across 3 Snoopy Projects, a full color trifold leaflet being distributed by Joann fabric shops last holiday season. This leaflet, …

Derrick Bang, the man behind the Peanuts anniversary book 50 Years of Happiness and editor on the collection of Schulz’s other strip, It’s Only a Game, is casting about for stories about how Peanuts has affected people. Let me turn the blogmike over to him: Calling all Peanuts fans! Don …

Coming in September is a new miniature book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, from Running Press. And for folks in the UK, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy drops in August. This is Ravette’s edition of the US Ballantine book reprinting the strips from 1995.

I don’t know why, but at the moment you can get Complete Peanuts Volume 1 and Volume 3 for 60% off the cover price… that’s less than $12 apiece for this nice, thick hardcovers. It’s less than wholesale. You probably already own copies, but isn’t there someone you need to …

For those interested in publishing history, here’s a nice article on St. John, a comic book publisher that published Peanuts material in various titles. (Link via Mark Evanier.) And remember, we have a quick guide to all of the Peanuts comic book appearance as part of our collecting guide.

Now shipping are the DVDs of: A Boy Named Charlie Brown Snoopy Come Home Peanuts video expert Scott McGuire has his review up, and it’s positive. The best news is that A Boy Named Charlie Brown has 7 restored minutes that were in the original theatrical release but have been …