In this issue:<\/p>\n
* UPGRADED ART OF SCHULZ
\n* ANOTHER CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
\n* A MONTH O’ PEANUTS CARTOONS
\n* COLORS FOR KIDS<\/p>\n
UPGRADED ART OF SCHULZ<\/p>\n
I’ve now had a chance to go page-by-page through the new
\npaperback edition of PEANUTS: THE ART OF CHARLES M. SCHULZ,
\ncomparing it to the hardcover edition. There is indeed 32
\npages of new material added to this version, although 4
\nexisting pages were removed. Does this make it worth getting
\nthe book if you’ve already got the hardcover? Well, I’ll
\nleave that to you to decide.<\/p>\n
Here’s what was removed:
\n A two-page spread (pages 4-5) of Patty, Lucy,
\nand Violet confronting Charlie Brown and Snoopy
\n The 13th and 14th pages from the end, featuring a
\nSchroeder\/Lucy marital dispute and a blow-up of a Sunday
\npanel<\/p>\n
Here’s what was added:<\/p>\n
About a third of the way through the book is a group of 16
\nnew pages:
\n1) A close up of a strip with dialog from an off-panel
\nadult (the Van Pelts’ mother)
\n2) Pictures of the Schulz-decorated nursery wall now on
\ndisplay in the Schulz museum
\n3) The cover of the first Peanuts comic book
\n4) Strips from the comic book (daily strips, colorized)
\n5) A panel of original art
\n6) Covers of three Peanuts reprint books and a box of
\nPeanuts napkins
\n7) A few Sunday strip close-ups
\n8) An original 1953 Sunday
\n9) Pictures of early Peanuts dolls from 1958, in packages — these
\nare the same figures that were already pictured much smaller later
\nin the book.
\n10) A couple of color Sundays
\n11) An original art daily<\/p>\n
A second new 16-page section about 2\/3s of the way through
\nfeatures:
\n1) shots of the Schulz\/Peanuts-illustrated Brownie
\nBook of Picture Taking
\n2) Panels from a Sunday strip about photography
\n3) Shots of Ford Falcon promotional material
\n4) Script and storyboards for the first Peanuts Falcon
\ncommercial (the first animated Peanuts work)
\n5) A rough for a Ford promotional brochure
\n6) Sunday panel blow-ups
\n7) Ceramic Determined Production figurines
\n8) Two pages of original art from the book
\nSnoopy And The Red Baron
\n9) Peanuts music boxes
\n10) Color Sundays
\n11) A Peanut toy piano (no, the black keys are not
\njust painted on)<\/p>\n
A new person, Roberta “Bobbie” Miller, was added to
\nthe thank you list<\/p>\n
Under the front and back cover flaps are a Sunday
\npanel close-up and a photo of Schulz, respectively.<\/p>\n
In addition, they corrected some of the errors that
\npopped into the first edition. They didn’t get all
\nof them; they seem to have been working from a list
\nI sent them after I first read the book, which makes
\nme now feel guilty for not having checked every
\nstatement along the way. Anyway, I and the AAUGH.com
\nfans have found a few more errors in the hardcover
\nsince then (some of them far too late to be fixed in
\nthis edition, including one that I discovered just
\nyesterday!), and I’ve already located one error in the
\nadditional material. I’ve updated my guide to the errors
\nto show which are in the hardcover, which are in the
\npaperback, and which are in both. Head on over to
\nhttp:\/\/AAUGH.com\/guide\/errors.htm<\/p>\n
Almost any book will have some errors in it, and as far as Peanuts-related errors, these are not egregious. Don’t
\nlet them stand in the way of owning this fine, fine book.
\nAnd remember, the paperback is less than $12 for a
\nwell-designed, full-color book over 350 pages long!
\nOrder it from http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0375714634
\n==============================================================
\nANOTHER CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS<\/p>\n
I just got my hands on Running Press’s new book A CHARLIE
\nBROWN CHRISTMAS, and yes indeed, it is yet another new
\nadaptation of that classic TV special! It’s not the
\nWorld Press edition with art by Dale Hale. It’s not the
\nRandom House version with pictures taken from the animation.
\nIt’s not the Golden Books edition with reworked Schulz art.
\nIt’s not the Little Simon edition with Paige Braddock art.
\nIt’s not the animation art version that was in A Charlie
\nBrown Christmas: The Making Of A Tradition. It’s not even
\nthe book-and-records edition.<\/p>\n
This time, they got Peter and Nick Lo Bianco to rework
\nSchulz art, so that the characters look like the later
\nSchulz style. Caroline Dolan provided the text.<\/p>\n
This is a little gift book, about 2 3\/4″ wide and
\n3 1\/3″ high, hardcover. It’s 128 pages long, so
\neven with only about 30 words per page on the text
\npages and plenty of pictures, it covers the story
\nof the special pretty well.<\/p>\n
This is designed as being a little gift item. It
\nhas a built-in ribbon bookmark with an inch-long
\nmetal Christmas tree on it. It’s supposed to be
\nCharlie Brown’s tree, even matches the drawing of
\nit on the back cover, but the fact that it’s
\nmetalic in color makes me think that maybe it’s
\none of those aluminum trees Charlie Brown shunned.
\nAwww, I’m just picking on it, it’s a nice addition.
\nThe ribbon is a single thread though, rather than
\na loop, so you can’t use the book as a Christmas
\ntree ornament. Well, I suppose you could tie the
\nribbon around the branch, but even then the slick
\nbook jacket is likely to slip off, leaving a
\nbland looking hardcover. You could tape the jacket
\nto the book, I suppose, or you could display it on
\nyour mantle. It is an attractive little item, and
\ncosts a mere $4.95. Think “stocking stuffer”.
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0762416017
\n(Note: beware of ordering used copies. The vendors
\nare apt to list any edition of A CB Christmas in
\nas being a used copy of this one. We really cannot
\nexpect most people to know about or care about the
\nhighly varied editions released under this title.
\nAlso, because of the ribbon and the metal weight,
\nI’d keep this out of the hands of kids who are still
\nin the stick-it-in-their-mouth phase.)
\n==============================================================
\nA MONTH O’ PEANUTS CARTOONS<\/p>\n
For those of us in the U.S., we get four prime-time
\nPeanuts specials over less than a month, including
\none brand new show!<\/p>\n
First up is A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING, airing on
\nNovember 23rd.<\/p>\n
Then on December 2nd comes the double-whammy, A
\nCHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS followed by CHARLIE BROWN’S
\nCHRISTMAS TALES. For those of you who haven’t caught
\nChristmas Tales before, do. It’s an entertaining
\nseries of short tales based on strip sequences, a
\nwell-done effort. (Of course, the brilliant folks
\nat the network have recycled their information for
\nChristmas Tales, leading them to announce on their
\nwebsite that these are “never-before-seen”, rather
\nthan something they ran last year.)<\/p>\n
On December 9th we get the new special, I WANT A
\nDOG FOR CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN. As the name implies,
\nthis special focuses on Rerun, and includes Spike!
\nTruly, a show of the under-represented-on-TV
\ncharacters.<\/p>\n
All of these air on ABC. Check your local listings
\nfor showtimes.
\n==============================================================
\nCOLORS FOR KIDS<\/p>\n
Little Simon has announced yet another book in their
\nline of books for the smaller set, this one entitled
\nsimply COLORS. It ships in June, and is not yet
\navailable for order.
\n==============================================================
\nJust a quick reminder for those of you in the Los Angeles
\nare that I’ll be at super*MARKET, the independent comics
\nfestival in UCLA this weekend:
\nhttp:\/\/students.asucla.ucla.edu\/cec\/v.01\/supermarket\/
\nIf you’re there, stop by and say “hi!” I’ll be at the
\nAbout Comics booth.<\/p>\n
Also, my new comic book, Licensable BearTM, will hit
\nbetter-stocked comic shops this coming Wednesday (although
\nI suspect it may be delayed in the Southwest, due to
\nshipping problems.) Head on over to
\nhttp:\/\/www.LicensableBearTM.com to read the free sample
\nstory. (Yeah, this is a Peanuts newsletter and I try to
\navoid promoting my own stuff much in it, but I’ve actually
\ngotten requests from readers asking that I do more of it.)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, keep sending me your news, notes, questions,
\nquotes, gripes, goats, and changed email addresses!<\/p>\n
–Nat
\n nat@AAUGH.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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