The AAUGH Blog Podcast episode 03: Franklin’s real life mother

In 1968, Harriet Glickman wrote to Charles Schulz to encourage him to integrate the comic strip by adding an African America character to Peanuts. In this episode, we talk to her about why she wrote that letter, and how it caused a controversial change to America’s most popular comic strip.

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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 …

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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 …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Ho! Ho! and also, Ho!

They say bad luck comes in threes, but so do book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas, at least this year, and that isn’t a bad thing at all. Three different new editions arrived here at AAUGH Blog Central on the same day, which was great! I mean, imagine if …