The AAUGH Blog Podcast 17: Wallace Exman Interview

The AAUGH Blogger interviews Wallace Exman, who edited Peanuts books for both World Publishing and Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in the 1960s and 1970s.

Art director Bob Reed (left), Charles Schulz, and Wallace Exman pore over art from the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
Not That Charlie Brown
So long, Charles Brown

Seen here is Charles Q. Brown Jr., probably the most powerful Charlie Brown there has ever been… except they didn’t call him “Charlie”. Mostly, they called him “sir”, as he rose through the ranks of the United States Air Force to become a four-star general… and then the Air Force …

Product
Diorama book report

This blog lives at the intersection of “Peanuts” and “books”, which is generally a comfortable place to be, but it has its surprises. The other day, my wife, daughter, and I were shopping at Miniso, a mall store that leans on licensed product (lots of Snoopy) and Japanese import items. …

Schulz/Peanuts news
Teen Peanuts characters in teen hands

Performed entertainment depicting the Peanuts characters aged up is a genre all its own. While there have been movies like (insert name of indy film that I just stumbled upon a few years back and now can neither recall the name of nor find any reference to), it’s been more …