AAUGH at the San Diego Comic Con
Comic Con International: San Diego, the biggest comic book convention in the US, is a mere two weeks away. This is a huge event, with hundreds of talks, thousands of exhibitors, millions of comics and books on sale, thousands of comics pros in attendance, plus movie and TV stars, toys, …
Pig Pen Product
Coming in May of next year is The Dirt on Pig Pen, a 96 page paperback strip collection. “But Nat!” you cry. “How can I plan now to buy next year’s books? I don’t have a 2007 calendar to track such things on!” Lucky for you, you can now order …
Now shipping: and though I should have noted it earlier, the DVD boxed set of This is America, Charlie Brown is now available for immediate shipment. This has the complete eight-episode miniseries, more than three hours of material on two disks at a good price.
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving cover
We’ve got an early look at the cover for the new mini book edition of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which supposely won’t be out until the Fall of 2007. At this point, I’m split between believing that and suspecting that someone just misentered a date, and the book is due …
An odd Schulz illustration
Over at his Arf Lovers Blog (which unfortunately doesn’t seem to have individual entry links, you’ll have to scroll down to the June 27th entry – and warning, some of the entries aren’t work safe) Craig Yoe chronicles an obscure 1958 pamphlet You Don’t See These Sights on the Regular …
Contest winner announced
The contest is over, the judge has made is arbitrary and final ruling, so it’s time for the announcement: The contest, as you may recall, was to come up with the best response to this question: “You bought Complete Peanuts Volume 5: 1959-1960 when it came out in the spring, …
Cover changes
Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. I Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when …
Non-Schulz Peanuts appear again
An intrepid AAUGH Blog reader (hi, Michael) called our attention to issue 59 of Alter Ego, a magazine on comic book history. In there is an interview with Al Plastino, long-time comic book artist, former cartoonist of the Nancy comic strip, and most relevant to this discussion, the guy whom …
Charlie Brown off to Camp – review
I’ve finished reading It’s Off to Camp, Charlie Brown, and the first question I have is: what’s off to camp? What does the “it” in the title refer to? I know it’s supposed to invoke the TV specials such as It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, but in that, the …
a contest with a cool Peanuts book prize!
It’s time for AAUGH.com to run its first contest, and thanks to the folks at Fantagraphics, we have a cool prize for some Peanuts book collector out there. How would you like to win volumes 1-3 of The Complete Peanuts… in Italian?!? How many of your collecting friends have those? …