On this mailbag episode of the Peapodcast, Erle T. Grant, Peapodcast host and fanatic about the Peapod comic strip, answers the questions you’ve emailed him! Don’t hear your question answered? Submit it for next time!
The embroidery craft of cross-stitch is inherently a low-resolution one. Putting an X of thread around a weave intersection of aida cloth creates a single pixel, and one by one you build up your grid of pixels, generally with a handful of threads giving you a limited color pallet. As …
Author Stephen Lind takes the interview seat this episode to talk about A Charlie Brown religion, a vital book looking on Schulz’s religious beliefs and the religious impact of Peanuts. The book can be ordered here.
I’ve got in my hands volume 10 of the KaBoom! Peanuts trade paperback series, which means that set is now complete; they’ve reprinted all of the issues of the KaBoom Peanuts comic book. This one reprints just two issues: issue 32 of volume 2 of the main series, plus the …
WildBrain, an animation studio owned by Peanuts Worldwide co-owner DHX, has started posting some new short animations on YouTube – two so far. Here’s one on Franklin teaching Charlie Brown football. (If you’re getting the blog via email, you may need to click through on the title of this blog …
The Sneaky Little Beagle, a new color storybook from Hallmark, is more a book to read to someone than it is to read to yourself. For one thing, it’s better out loud; the book is set to the tune of the song “Itsy Bitsy Spider”. And for another, the book …
Coming to the racetrack this fall is another Snoopy-decorated race-a-ma-jig. Everybody’s favorite beagle… well, not everybody’s favorite, surely some people love their own dog more than they love Snoopy, it’s understandable… but the favorite beagle for the largest number of people, making him the most favoritest beagle, he will be on …
Cookbooks featuring the Peanuts characters have been coming out for about half a century now. in this episode, the AAUGH Blogger takes a look at a number key examples of the form. (And for those looking for links, here’s an ordering link for the upcoming The Peanuts Family Cookbook, and here’s …
The AAUGH Blogger responds to Peanuts book questions and comments sent in by fans… and a relative. Books mentioned in this episode include: Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz For the Love of Peanuts Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
Here’s the announced cover for Be a Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, an upcoming children’s storybook… which, according to the cover, will have bonus baseball facts! (I suspect they will not be the sort of bonus baseball facts that I want, which would be Lucy explaining the facts of baseball to Linus in …