My First 100 Peanuts Words cover
Here is the cover for My First 100 Peanuts Words, an upcoming board book. Spoiler warning: the cover reveals some of the words!
Big Peanuts Kindle sale
Fantagraphics is having a big sale on the digital editions of their books – including all their Peanuts books! Volumes of The Complete Peanuts are $7.99 apiece. Smaller books like Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, $2.99! If you like your books on your Kindle device, go buy now!
My new license plate frame
Now everywhere I drive is considered a deductible advertising expense, right? RIGHT?? I really wanted to make the top line (heart)PEANUTS? but the build-your-own-frame set had no question marks. Which is a bad thing. Unquestionably.
The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Lex Fajardo interview
Alexis E. Fajardo, who is Senior Editor of Publishing for Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates as well as creator of Kid Beowulf, joins us for a live-at-the-San-Diego-Comic-Con interview.
Mission Accomplished
While there were lots of bits of business that I had to get done at Comic-Con last week, the one purchase I felt was absolutely necessary was to get a copy of Mission Out of Control, the convention-exclusive Peanuts comic book. After all, I’m the guy who chronicles these things. This …
Snoopy wins an award, and some nun news
At last night’s Eisner Awards, generally considered the biggest awards in the American comics scene, the big thick hardcover strip collection Celebrating Snoopy took home the trophy in the category of “Best Archival Collection/Project – Strips”. Congratulations to the fine folks who put that book together… and to Snoopy himself! And …
Comic-Con Peanuts panels report
Well, my time at Comic-Con is over for the year, but there were two good Peanutsy panels. The first one, covering Peanuts and NASA, I was possibly the last audience member allowed into the very full room. The panelists, including folks from the Schulz Museum, Creative Associates, NASA, and CollectSpace, …
The AAUGH Blog Podcast: The Defeasible Pumpkin
The AAUGH Blogger takes a look at the inobvious 1997 book The Defeasible Pumpkin: An Epiphany in a Pumpkin Patch. It’s Christian apologetics fun! Particularly if you define “fun” very loosely! (The free PDF of the book can be found at this link.)
Comic-con panel: Snoopy Space Traveler: The History and Future of Snoopy and NASA
A panel has been added to the Comic-Con schedule, covering the expanded Peanuts/NASA alliance. Here’s the official description: Discover how cartoonist Charles M. Schulz partnered with NASA to bring everyone’s favorite beagle Snoopy to the moon in this retrospective panel about the history and future of Snoopy in space. The …
Peapodcast: The Peapod Thesaurus
In this episode, the Peapodcaster takes a look at The Peapod Thesaurus from the 1970s.