AAUGH and AG
Sorry if things have seemed a bit frentic lately at AAUGH.com. It wasn’t a business thing, it was a personal life thing. Last night, My wife Lara gave birth to Allison Elizabeth Gertler, our first child. Prepping for this has knocked all my plans and schemes for a loop. She …
A box of friends
Also now available is Oh Friends of Friends : A Peanuts Box of Friendship, which is the same sort of little box as the Merry Christmas, Sweetie! Woof, Woof, Woof!” box I described before. This one has a cardboard Snoopy with word balloon stickers. I’ve not gotten it yet, so …
Woof Woof Wooflet
I’ve gotten my copy of Merry Christmas, Sweetie! Woof, Woof, Woof!, which is a small boxed set that includes a flat cardboard doghouse with Christmas stickers to deorate it with. Also enclosed is a 32 page booklet, 2.75 inches square, with Christmas-themed Peanuts strips reprinted in color, plus Christmas-oriented quotes. …
Yet another Schulz bio for kids!
It seems like Sparky has turned into quite a popular topic for books aimed at kids library. Next up, this January, is a new such volume in the First Biographies line. Let’s hope that author Cheryl Carlson hits the mark better than some of the lesser shelf-fillers that have come …
Peanuts Paperback Celebration
Peanuts: a Golden Celebration, the large 50th anniversary book, is now shipping in paperback. (This isn’t the first paperback edition, but the earlier one was available only to a membrs of a book club.) One thing I do want to note is that this edition has not been updated at …
Halloween all year long
Yup, I’m still playing catch-up with this year’s halloween-themed Peanuts books. It’s never too late to buy them for next year. The major release is Trick or Treat: A Peanuts Halloween, which includes about 130 halloween and fright-themed comic strips taken from the entire run of the strip, including ones …
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I Want A DVD For Christmas, Charlie Brown!
Just out on DVD is I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown, the most recent Christmas special. And if that one special is not special enough for you, they round out the disk with some other material from the past few years: the documentary on the making of A …
Wow, this is late
I jus discovered that somehow I let the new book adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown slip by without announcement. This isn’t the one that’s part of the line of kiddie books. Instead, this is a miniature hardcover, a la last year’s A Charlie Brown Christmas adaptation. Well, …
Next Complete cover online!
Check out Pig-Pen on the cover of volume 3 of The Complete Peanuts!