Lucy, the book
Catching up on recent purchases, we have Lucy, a hardcover collection of Lucy-centric stories from the Boom! comic books – so if you have all the comic books, or all the trade paperback collections thereof, then you have all this stuff. But it is a collection with a lot of good …
AAUGH: Peanuts and Wikipedia
Peanuts is perhaps the world’s most beloved comic, Wikipedia the most consulted source of information. Bring them together, and there will be…. well, articles. And shenanigans.
More upcoming Peanuts books are coming up
Coming up for you Peanuts-reading fans are these volumes: Gobble Up, Snoopy! (a storybook, art by Scott Jeralds, September) Christmas is Here! (a storybook, art by Robert Pope, September) Snoopy’s Snow Day! (a board book, September, described in the listing as “giftable”) Charlie Brown: All Tied Up (volume 13 in the AMP …
AAUGH: Peanuts Every Sunday
The AAUGH Blogger casts his reviewing eyes over the box set of books, Peanuts Every Sunday: the Seventies. Peanuts Every Sunday boxed sets available: Peanuts Every Sunday: the Fifties Peanuts Every Sunday: the Sixties Peanuts Every Sunday: the Seventies Individual volumes Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 Peanuts Every Sunday: 1956-1960 Peanuts …
Choo-choo Charlie
I am not going to buy this. Even though it is, technically, a Peanuts strip reprint. Even though it says AAUGH! on the top. I am not, am not, am not going to buy it. I just gotta keep telling myself that.
Review: Be a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
Be a Good Sport, Charlie Brown, a recently released children’s storybook, tells the tale of Charlie Brown not being a good sport, in that as the manager of his baseball team, he yells at his players. But then he decides to be nice, and the team all likes him better. …
This fall’s Peanuts titles
The solicitations are now in for Peanuts titles coming in the fall of 2019: volume 12 of the paperback edition of Complete Peanuts, with all the strips from 1973 and 1974 the box set of volumes 11 and 12 of the paperback Complete Peanuts Peanuts Every Sunday, with all the Sundays …
AAUGH: Peanuts Quilted Interview
Kathleen Shea, author of Peanuts Quilted Celebration, talks about her decade-plus effort in making this lovely how-to book of Peanuts quilt designs. Her book can be ordered from her etsy store, SnoopyStuff.)
The Czechs came in the mail (yes, yes, every joke about Czech is how it sounds like “check”. The world is that simple.)
The books I ordered from the Czech Republic arrived yesterday. They took two months to get here, but that’s fine – shipping that isn’t slow isn’t cheap. These books are 2007-2008 translations of Love is Walking Hand in Hand. Happiness is a Warm Puppy, and Educating Peanuts. If you don’t recall that …
Kaye Ballard, RIP
Kaye Ballard has died. She had places in the world of stage and screen, but it’s her recording career as a musical comedian that is of interest to the Peanuts fan. In 1962 she issued a recording of her doing Peanuts humor, based on her touring act at the time. …