{"id":4545,"date":"2017-03-21T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2017-03-19T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T04:12:31","slug":"snoopy-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/snoopy-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in the AMP series of strip collections for kids,\u00a0<strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_4458482\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Snoopy-Rescue-Peanuts-Collection-Kids\/dp\/1449482066\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=680b27bcde2b52461a3b8f07379fbe07&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\"Snoopy to the Rescue!\" data-amzn-link-id=\"680b27bcde2b52461a3b8f07379fbe07\">Snoopy to the Rescue!<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_4458482\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=680b27bcde2b52461a3b8f07379fbe07&amp;_cb=1489978937089\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>, is not a Snoopy-specific collection, but rather a collection of circa-1969 strips, ones that were fairly recently reprinted in the papers. It keeps most of the features of the previous AMP collections &#8211; everything&#8217;s in color, in the back there are articles and activities (this time, on the Peanuts\/NASA connection), and there&#8217;s a fold-out poster of the book&#8217;s cover in the back. One thing that&#8217;s been dropped from the format is the flip-book aspect; earlier volumes had little animations at the edges of the pages, so you could riffle the page ends and watch some motion. I think it&#8217;s just as well that those are gone. I hope that in later volumes, they take advantage of their absence to move the strips a little more toward the outside edge of the page, so less of the art is sloping into toward the binding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rescue-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4548\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rescue-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rescue-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rescue-1.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>As for how good it is, hey, it&#8217;s late-1960s Peanuts strips. That&#8217;s good stuff! If this was for me, I&#8217;d prefer that the daily strips were in black-and-white, but these are aimed at a younger audience, who have never seen a black-and-white anything in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>It does give me a chance to fall into my teacher-of-comics tendencies, however. Looking closely at my copies, some of the items (particularly those in red) have white halos around the black lines. Now, there are a couple of reasons why that might be &#8211; it&#8217;s probable that the red printing was just a little bit out of line, but it may be that the area was not properly filled in&#8230; but really proper color handling would have avoided it. When you have black lines around a red area, you want to actually\u00a0overlap the red and black printing so slightly out-of-alignment printing doesn&#8217;t leave unintended white areas. And that&#8217;s the coloring lesson for today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in the AMP series of strip collections for kids,\u00a0Snoopy to the Rescue!, is not a Snoopy-specific collection, but rather a collection of circa-1969 strips, ones that were fairly recently reprinted in the papers. It keeps most of the features of the previous AMP collections &#8211; everything&#8217;s in color, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}