The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Stan Pawlowski

The AAUGH Blogger interviews sculptor Stan Pawlowski, whose silver and bronze work with Charlie Brown and Snoopy over the last quarter century has been prized by many a Peanuts collector. He discusses working with the characters, the painstaking effort in not just designing but casting the sculptures himself, and his friendship with Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz.

New releases
“Books”

My grocery shopping today landed me two new Peanuts “books”. The more bookish of the two is the latest edition of The Great Big Book of Peanuts Word Seeks, volume 5 to be precise, which as I’ve mentioned before I’ll allow to qualify as a book… particularly because it not …

Upcoming releases
A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

Classic finds
Enigmatic Snoopy

Sitting here, patiently waiting months for me to blog about it, is Enigmatica di Snoopy e i suoi amici Peanuts, a full-color 48 page puzzle magazine that is apparently issue 66 of the quarterly Italian magazine Gioca Con Noi. This issue, intended for Dicembre – Febbraio 2022, is Christmas-themed. It …