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When you look at the world through Peanuts-colored lenses

Some days, it seems that I cannot get far away from Peanuts, no matter what I’m doing. For example, at the moment I’m working on an article about some mid-1960s cartoon books about Jewish women who run brothels. Really, there’s more than one of these – at least six. It …

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New releases

A one-hour book

I finally picked up my copy of Peanuts 5-Minute Stories, an anthology of a dozen previously-published stories for children. Some of them are culled from the square storybooks that Simon Spotlight has been issuing, others from board books. All of them had to be re laid out to some degree to …

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Schulz/Peanuts news

Peanuts Global Artist Collective

Now this is cool! The Peanutsy folks have announced the Peanuts Global Artist Collective, an international public art effort were seven selected artists/teams are doing public art using the Peanuts characters. They’re permitted to do their own interpretation of the characters, or to use Schulz art, or to mix things together …

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The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Planet Peanuts

On this episode of the economics podcast Planet Peanuts, we look at the pricing of Peanuts books and Peanuts comic books.

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Discounts

Free Comic Book Day – tomorrow

I’m interrupting your usual Peanuts-y news for a reminder that the first Saturday in May – and as I type this, that’s tomorrow – is Free Comic Book Day. Odds are pretty good that if you walk into a comic book store tomorrow, you’ll be able to walk away with absolutely …

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New releases

Nice to Meet You, FRANKLIN!

I now have a copy of the new storybook Nice to Meet You, FRANKLIN!, in which Tina Gallo and Robert Pope retell the first two Franklin storylines from the strip – Franklin finds Charlie Brown’s lost beach ball on the beach, and then Franklin comes to Charlie Brown’s neighborhood and gets …

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The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Peanuts Presents

On the occasion of The AAUGH Blogger’s birthday, he strings off a list of presents he wants… not just for himself, but for the entire Peanuts community. Okay, there are some just for himself.

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Upcoming releases

Coverses!

Here are a couple of upcoming books. The new edition of Happiness is a Warm Puppy  meets the pattern of the other book rereleasing in the series, keeping the original image and putting it amid a sea of zigzags. And the cover to Snoopy’s Christmas Surprise is no longer a surprise!

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The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Personal growth

On this episode of the podcast, the AAUGH Blogger offers crackpot theories on the odd ways in which Peanuts characters age.

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Upcoming releases

Snoopy Super Boxer

Coming in October is… well, five strip collections that are already out, but now they’re together in a box. The Super Box of Snoopy includes the following books from the Peanuts Kids (previously AMP Kids) line of full-color strip reprints. Snoopy: Cowabunga! Snoopy: Contact! Snoopy: Party Animal Snoopy to the Rescue …

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