Review: Sparky & Spike
The new book Sparky & Spike: Charles Schulz and the Wildest, Smartest Dog Ever seems to be on the cusp of transitioning Schulz’s cultural image from artist to icon – not the first leaning in that direction, but perhaps the most blatant. It tells the tale of a boy who is …
Plate Expectations
It was on a trip to Las Vegas where I first ran into parking ticketing machines that actually read your license plate as you drove in, and printed the license number on your ticket. Now, as you may recall, my license plate has a picture of Snoopy and the word …
The Moist Menace
While I’ve covered various Happiness is a Warm Puppy parodies in the past, and while I have a number of programs from Reuben Award ceremonies held by the National Cartoonist Society, I haven’t seen the 1963 program, which is where Carol Tilley (U of Illinois professor who focuses on comics …
You know what would be a good title for a book?
Hmmm… maybe we should name the book something original, like… GOOD GRIEF!
Review: Good Grief, Charlie Brown
So life has been full, and even after I got around to ordering Good Grief, Charlie Brown: Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts, and even after it arrived slowly from England, I let it sit around for over a month before finally getting around to giving it a good …
The Charlie Brown Christmas that slipped by me
So there I was, burning off some time in the mall waiting for my daughter’s movie to let out, so hey, I head into the Hallmark, figure I’ll look at some of the Peanuts stuff that I’m not going to buy (one thing about focusing on books is that it …
Missing podcast links
For those who heard last week’s podcast and wondered “hey, where are the links that he promised to those other podcasts?”, something apparently went wrong with my saving those links. They have now been added to the Blog entry for that episode.
It’s Only a Game comes to Minneapolis
While Schulz’s collaborator on It’s Only a Game, Jim Sasseville, would say that the strip was in the same number of papers at the end as when it launched, that doesn’t mean that no papers added it along the way. Here, for example, is the announcement of the feature’s debut …
The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Finale
The AAUGH Blogger lets you know about several Peanuts-related podcasts that are ongoing (It’s a Podcast, Charlie Brown; The Peanuts Gallery; Blockhead) … and one that isn’t. Mentioned in this podcast: It’s a Podcast, Charlie Brown The Peanuts Gallery Blockhead: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz