IN THIS ISSUE:<\/p>\n
* MORE UPCOMING BRITISH PEANUTS BOOKS
\n
* WHAT WAS FREE IS NOW CHEAPER!
\n
* READY2READ COVER READY2VIEW
\n
* ANOTHER COUPON
\n
* MORE DETAILS ON A PEANUTS CHRISTMAS
\n
* ODD PEANUTS BOOK: THE MOST EXPENSIVE PEANUTS BOOK EVER?
\n
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\n
MORE UPCOMING BRITISH BOOKS<\/p>\n
It looks like the fine folks over in England are getting
\nanother batch of books not destined for bookstores in the
\nStates. These are further books in the Little Book series,
\nin addition to the four mini paperbacks that are already
\nreleased. These books are scheduled for October, and are
\navailable for preorder now. They are:<\/p>\n
CHARLIE BROWN’S LITTLE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP
\n
http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/go.htm?1841611565<\/p>\n
PEANUTS LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE
\n
http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/go.htm?1841611573<\/p>\n
SNOOPY’S LITTLE BOOK OF STYLE
\n
http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/go.htm?1841611581
\n
http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/go.htm?1841611557<\/p>\n
Why are there two links for that last one? I’ve gotten two
\ndifferent ISBN numbers for that. My guess is that one of
\nthese is supposed to go to a different new book in the
\nLittle Book series. Ravette has recently been issuing
\ntheir paperback Peanuts books in groups of 4. I will
\ntry to find out what the real fourth book is and let you
\nknow as soon as I can.
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\n
WHAT WAS FREE IS NOW CHEAPER!<\/p>\n
Those of you in the United States ordering from the main
\nAAUGH.com store may have seen the offer for free “Super
\nSaver” shipping on orders of $99 or more (with some
\nrestrictions, such as the order has to be a single
\nshipment.) Well, that deal has just gotten better; now,
\nyou only have to find $49 worth of stuff worth ordering
\nto qualify for free super saver shipping. This is an
\nexperimental offer and may not last, but at the moment
\nit’s a good deal!
\n
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\n
READY2READ COVER READY2VIEW<\/p>\n
I have the cover to the upcoming Ready2Read kids book
\nFLYING ACE TO THE RESCUE up at http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/upcoming.htm
\n
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\n
ANOTHER COUPON<\/p>\n
Here’s a coupon code good through mid-August!
\n
MAPCLEANER35
\n
What will that do for you? If you order $35
\nor more from the main AAUGH.com store, this will chop
\n$5 off your total. This deal may have some limitations,
\nand it’s only good for a limited time — but hey, if you
\nwere thinking of ordering anyway, an extra five bucks off
\ncan’t hurt! When you’re checking out, enter this
\ncode into the field marked “Have a gift certificate or
\npromotional code?” then click the APPLY button.
\n
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\n
MORE DETAILS ON A PEANUTS CHRISTMAS<\/p>\n
I have in front of me the dust jacket for the upcoming
\nbook A Peanuts Christmas. That’s right — I don’t have
\nthe book itself, I merely have the dust jacket. And
\nthat dust jacket makes me want the book all the more.
\nWhy? Because it tells me that this book is supposed to
\nbe “the complete collection of Christmas strips from
\n1950 to 1999”. Complete. That’s a word I like. We’ll
\nsee if it’s true (covers have promised things before
\nthat the book failed to deliver), but I suspect this
\nwill be a worthwhile book in any case. <\/p>\n
The cover price on this hardcover is $25.95, but
\ncurrently you can preorder the book for 30% off,
\na mere $18.17. (And think about this: order 2 copies,
\nand you can use the $5 coupon above. Order 3 copies,
\nand you can also get free shipping. That would be
\na copy for yourself plus two copies to use as
\nChristmas gifts, all delivered to your door when the
\nbook ships in October, all for $49.51!)
\n
http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/go.htm?0345453514
\n
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\n
ODD PEANUTS BOOK: THE MOST EXPENSIVE PEANUTS BOOK EVER?<\/p>\n
This book — actually a booklet — was mailed out for free,
\nbut there was a major catch. It was only sent to people who
\nhad bought a new car, a new Ford Falcon to be precise.<\/p>\n
In the early 1960s, Ford made heavy use of the Peanuts
\ncharacters to promote the Falcon line. The earliest Peanuts
\nanimation was in ads for Ford, and Ford had Schulz do
\nsome funny original strips for their print advertising.
\nI’ve recently obtained copies of the brochures for the
\n1961 and ’62 Falcon lines, each of which has single-panel
\n(and occasionally dual-panel) Peanuts gags scattered
\nthroughout.<\/p>\n
When you bought your 1963 Falcon (and possibly in other
\nyears as well), Ford Motor Company sent you a
\ncongratulatory letter, a Schulz-illustrated postcard
\nto send them a list of your friends who might like to
\nbuy a Falcon, and a copy of A SCRAPBOOK ABOUT YOUR
\nFALCON, a heavy-paper saddle-stitch booklet which,
\naccording to the cover, was “prepared by Charlie
\nBrown and his friends”. Five Peanuts characters are
\nused on the front and back covers — Lucy, Pig-Pen,
\nCharlie Brown, Snoopy, and Linus. On the front they
\nare pasting up the title to the booklet, ransom not
\nstyle, and on the back they’re talking about how much
\nthey love the Falcon (except for Snoopy, who feels
\nthat “some affection should be left for pets”.)
\nAcross the eight interior pages and the inside
\ncovers are seven little Peanuts gags used to augment
\ntext and pictures discussing what makes your new
\nFalcon great. Most are, alas, the sort of weak humor
\nthat you get when you need to create some gag that
\nrelates to a specific unfunny topic. For example,
\nwhen the book talks about the special orifice that
\nmakes the brakes work so well, we see Charlie Brown
\nseated behind an office desk, saying “How nice..
\nevery Falcon owner has his own private orifice”
\nMost of the gags in the ’61 and ’62 model brochures
\nare of similar nature, and stylistically suggest
\nthe heavy editing hand of marketing copywriters.
\nSchulz certainly was capable of creating good
\nspecial-needs promotional strips, as the Ford print
\nads and the Brownie Book Of Picture Taking show.<\/p>\n
The scrapbook and the brochures certainly aren’t
\n“must own” items for Peanuts fans (and a good thing
\nthey aren’t, because they aren’t very common, in my
\nexperience.) These aren’t some treasure trove of
\ngreat lost Schulz work, but they do provide some
\namusement and are an interesting look at the early
\nuse of the Peanuts characters as spokeskids,
\nin the days not only before Met Life and Camp Snoopy,
\nbut before A Charlie Brown Christmas, You’re A Good
\nMan Charlie Brown, and Happiness Is A Warm Puppy
\nmade Peanuts a common site outside of the strip.
\n
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\n
Well, that’s all the news and notes for this issue. Next
\ntime, I should have a look at *another* Peanuts-illustrated
\nguide to golf, and probably some news about the Schulz
\nMuseum opening. And, of course, any and all upcoming book
\ninfo that I can scrape up.<\/p>\n
–N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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