{"id":1552,"date":"2011-05-14T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T19:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2017-10-29T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:33:30","slug":"an-early-worst-schulz-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/an-early-worst-schulz-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"An early worst Schulz biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/images\/reaching1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Charles Schulz Great Cartoonist\" src=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/images\/reaching1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a>When I reviewed the new worst Schulz biography &#8211; the one which<a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1540\"> misspells his name on the cover<\/a> &#8212; I linked to some previous reviews of bad Schulz biographies designed to fill the shelves of school libraries. In doing so, I realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=86\">my review<\/a> of one such biography which was ruined by its images was done back in the days before the AAUGH Blog carried images&#8230; really, before it was the AAUGH Blog, back when it was an email newsletter. As such, I described the flaws rather than show them. Time to rectify that&#8230;. so here are just a few images from <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0865924295\"><strong>Charles Schulz: Great Cartoonist<\/strong><\/a>, part of the <em>Reaching Your Goal <\/em>series of books (which had a number of books illustrated by the same artist.<\/p>\n<p>This book was issued in 1989 by Rourke Publishing in Florida, who still produce products for school libraries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/images\/reaching2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Tiny Charles Schulz\" src=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/images\/reaching2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a>Throughout the book, Schulz is depicted as weraring outfits bearing Charlie Brown&#8217;s famous zig-zag pattern.\u00a0 In this image, it becomes apparent why Charles Schulz was always the smallest in his class; they had for some reason let an eight year old attend The High School For The Freakishly Tall And Occassionally Balding.<\/p>\n<p>But my favorite image of this whole book is the one in which Schulz first visits the offices of United Feature, and finds them on an upper level of a New York skyscraper, with windows that look out over the city.. and a door on the same wall as the windows. Perhaps these offices housed a stock brokerage during the Great Depression, in which case the door came in handy for brokers looking to make a quick and permanent exit after having lost all of their investors&#8217; money. Maybe United Feature Syndicate was hoping that Spider-Man would come visit. Or perhaps this as just one of those things that mankind was not meant to understand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"United Feature Syndicate offices\" src=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/images\/reaching3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"719\" \/>Feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I reviewed the new worst Schulz biography &#8211; the one which misspells his name on the cover &#8212; I linked to some previous reviews of bad Schulz biographies designed to fill the shelves of school libraries. In doing so, I realize that my review of one such biography which &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}