Fashion bags
I stopped by the pop-up Snoopy & Belle In Fashion store at 266 Fifth, near the San Diego Comic-Con. It’s a display of dozens of the Snoopy and Belle figures draped by famous design houses, with special tote bags and pins for sale.
At the Peanuts booth
Despite not being announced on the San Diego Comic-Con website, the Peanuts booth does have exclusive t-shirts. And do you have to wait in line to get one? Well, actually, you can’t. You have to wait to wait in line! Turns out, people like Peanuts stuff!
Political footballs
I find it interesting how certain analogies find a good home in the culture, as if up until then the culture had a hole, that there was some vital aspect of life that was just waiting for something to describe it. Lucy pulling the football away is one of those …
Back in my day, we spelled it “fork”
AAUGH Blog reader John pointed out this announcement of yet another home video release of the three perennial Peanuts specials (Christmas, Great Pumpkin, and Thanksgiving). While the announced advantage of this release is that it has remastered 4K editions, let’s face it, that’s far more resolution than these things were ever intended for or …
Does this mean that fifty years from now, I’ll own THREE baseball teams?
Tens of thousands of baseball fans, officials, and journalists have arrived in Miami today for one reason: to see the worst owner in professional sports for themselves. The internet swelled this weekend with think pieces about garbage can Jeffrey Loria — and that was before his walking frat-boy smirk of a …
Ah, THAT’s what that book is
I got a tad more information on the book Charles M. Schulz’ Charlie Brown that’s coming from Kaboom! next March. It’s another collection of stories from the Kaboom! Peanuts comics… but not a collection of previously-uncollected stories. Instead, it’s “best of” collection focused on stories about the round-headed kid. This 96 …
The 2017 Peanuts Comic-Con Panel
If you’ll be at Comic-Con on Thursday the 20th (alas, barring some unexpected change, I will only be there Saturday), here is the panel that you will get to see: 50 Years of Peanuts in Japan Thursday July 20, 2017 3:00pm – 4:00pm Room 23ABC Japan has a special relationship …
Peanuts Guides to Life
It looks like Running Press is going full in on bringing the UK strip reprint series Peanuts Guide to Life over into the US. Having already announced their edition of The Peanuts Guide to Christmas for October, I now see that they’re bring both The Philosophy of Snoopy and The Wisdom …
When things I thought weren’t going to happen happen
It had been so long since the most recent trade paperback volume collecting the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book stories that I was assuming they’d lost either the rights or the will to reprint the remaining issues, an assumption backed by the fact that Kaboom! no longer lists any Peanuts product on …
Not every Peanuts press release gives you information like this!
As a result of the closing of the Acquisition, each holder of Subscription Receipts received, for no additional consideration and subject to adjustment, one special warrant (each a “Special Warrant” and, collectively, the “Special Warrants”) that, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, shall be automatically exercised, for no additional consideration, …