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 …
Here’s a first look at the cover for Complete Peanuts: 1961-1962. This is the volume that comes out in October, and it’s got an intro by G. B. Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury. Before that, of course, is The Complete Peanuts: 1959-1960, which ships in May, with an intro by Whoopi …
Coming this summer is This is America, Charlie Brown, the complete eight-episode TV miniseries on DVD. I’ve been looking for this one to hit DVD for a while. If you’ve never seen this series, it uses the Peanuts characters to tell tales of various aspects of US history. While the …
As we mentioned recently, the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown ships later this month on DVD. However, it’s not the only DVD to carry that title. Before that movie, before even A Charlie Brown Christmas, producer Lee Mendelson worked with Schulz and animator Bill Melendez to make a documentary …
AAUGH Blog reader Fred Dingledy put some research muscle into the question of the odd title of the German Peanuts book Love is a Book with Seven Seals: it looks as if “ein Buch mit sieben Sigeln” is a German expression referring to someone or something that can’t be understood …