Surprise episode: Benjamin L. Clark, curator of the Schulz Museum

The AAUGH Blog Podcast returns from retirement for a special episode. The AAUGH Blogger talks to Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark about his work, and about the book that the two of them wrote together, the new Schulz Museum project Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects.

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Review: Snoopy Gets a Name

In the past, I’ve reviewed a couple of pre-Peanuts books about dogs named Snoopy… but my latest find is just a bit different. It’s about a white kitty, and her name is Snoopy. And that’s a fact you might quickly glean from the tile: Snoopy gets a name. Which, let’s face it, …

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

Shortly after I posted the video about the comic strip”The Wolf” which suggested ways in which it set the path for “Peanuts”, my pal and co-writer, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, pointed out something I had missed — while “Willie” had offered strips run in a two-tier format before …

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Under the influence of The Wolf

I’ve talked about this a bit earlier on this blog, but now I’ve gone and made a whole video about the odd tranformation that the World War II cartoon panel “The Wolf”, aimed at American GIs, slowly evolved into a daily comic strip about a quirky bunch of neighborhood kids …