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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Classic finds
The expensive book I’m glad I bought, the discount book I kinda wish I hadn’t

Two books joined the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, neither of them new volumes. One of them brought grins, one brought a loud meh. Four years back I noted that there was a book out called Man’s Best Friend, documenting a gallery show by Kaws, an artist some of whose work …

General
The 75th Anniversary

I sat down to write a nice, long something on the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, because it’s a 75th anniversary, because this is the official marking of Peanuts being a cultural presence after the end of the strip for half as long as the strip was being made, and because …

fashion
AAUGH does Vegas

Your favorite AAUGH Blogger spent a couple nights this week in lovely Las Vegas, the town that demonstrates what humankind can achieve if we don’t stop and say “should we? Really?” I was there on business, but as the business was attending the Las Vegas Souvenir Convention, the leading tchotchke …