The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Comic Books
During the 1950s and 1960s, four different publishers put out comic books containing Peanuts material. To celebrate the release of the new Peanuts Dell Archive (order it!), the AAUGH Blogger discusses the history of these comics and what they were like.
Dell Peanuts Archive contents
The Dell Peanuts Archive hits comic shops this Wednesday, and bookstores (including Amazon) not long after that. I’ve got a PDF – really, would’ve had it last week, had I been paying attention – and can give a rundown of what it actually holds. No, it’s not the complete 1950s/1960s …
The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Career Education
The 1979 film strip It’s Your Hobby, Charlie Brown offers some career advice… advice that reflects how the AAUGH Blogger has lived his life. Yes, it’s another kind of introspective article, with a little update to the very first full episode of this podcast series.
New Hallmark boardish books
I received the Hallmark Christmas catalog mailer the other day, and while there were new books in there, and Peanuts items, there were no new Peanuts books. But I try to be not so concerned, because I recall that being the case in the past, and they still ended up …
Braddock says goodbye to Jane’s World
Paige Braddock, the Chief Creative Officer over at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates and quite a cartoonist on her own, has been doing her own strip for decades. I haven’t read all of “Jane’s World” but the chunks that I have read are quite enjoyable, and I always mean to …
The AAUGH Blog Podcast: I Got a Rock
It’s that season again, the It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown time of year, and the AAUGH Blogger has some thoughts about giving out rocks for trick or treat.
A cover, and a mystery
Seen here is what I think is a nice, grabbing cover for the paperback edition that Amazon is currently listing as (and I swear this is true now, even if it’s no longer true by the time you check) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) (1) (Vol. 11) (The Complete Peanuts). …
It’s the Peak of the Holiday Season
It is my favorite time of the Christmas season, which long time readers will know means just one thing: the arrival of a new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas! Or… is it an adaptation. The publication in question is a new boxed set, called the A Charlie Brown Christmas Wooden …
The AAUGH Blog Podcast: It’s Only a Game
In the late 1950s, Charles Schulz created another syndicated newspaper feature, the gag panel “It’s Only a Game”. The AAUGH Blogger talks about the history of this creation, and his own efforts to restore and reprint this little-known series. The book It’s Only a Game: The Complete Color Collection is …
A little harder to find this Look And Find
The PI Kids line exists, I assume, solely to frustrate and befuddle me. They have out, apparently, what is announced on Amazon as Peanuts – Best Friends Look and Find Book and Cuddly Snoopy Plush. Only You cannot expect to get it through Amazon. Amazon says it will take months …