IN THIS ISSUE:<\/p>\n
* MUSEUM CATALOG OUT
\n
\n* NEW ANIMATED SPECIALS ON THE WAY
\n
\n* IT’S BABY SNOOPY, BABY!
\n
\n* PEANUTS WILL POP UP
\n
\n* SCHULZ: GREAT CARTOONIST, LOUSY BOOK
\n
\n* FURTHER CONVERSATIONS<\/p>\n
MUSEUM CATALOG OUT<\/p>\n
The catalog of the Schulz Museum’s three exhibits of tribute
\nstrips is finally available. TRIBUTE TO SPARKY is a spiral-bound
\nhardcover, 164 pages of material. Alas, the review copy that
\nis supposed to be winging its way to me has yet to arrive, so
\nI can’t give you the full rundown. If you want to see a picture
\nof the book, however, you can take a look here:
\n
\n http:\/\/www.schulzmuseum.org\/store\/store.html
\n
\nand if you want to buy a copy… well, no, you still can’t buy
\nit through AAUGH.com, but you don’t have to schlep out to
\nSanta Rosa to buy it, either. Call (707) 579-4452 during museum
\nhours (remember, they’re west coast and closed Tuesdays) and ask
\nfor the museum store. When you get them, tell them AAUGH.com
\nsent you! (They won’t know what that means, of course, but I
\nlike confusing folks.)<\/p>\n
When I get my review copy, there’ll be a review.
\n
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\n
\nNEW ANIMATED SPECIALS ON THE WAY<\/p>\n
Word is now out that there are actually TWO new animated Peanuts
\nspecials coming this year. In addition to the previously-discussed
\nLUCY MUST BE TRADED, CHARLIE BROWN (a baseball-themed show), we
\ncan now expect I WANT A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN. It seems
\nclear from the title that this will be a Rerun show, even the first
\ntime it airs! (Laugh now. That’s the joke.)
\n
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\n
\nIT’S BABY SNOOPY, BABY!<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten some more info on some of the upcoming kids books.
\nSLEEPY TIME (featuring Baby Snoopy) and HELLO WORLD (featuring
\nWoodstock) are shaped cloth books, good for kids as young as
\n6 months. PUPPY DAYS stars Baby Snoopy and the rest of the Daisy
\nHill pups, and is part of the Ready-To-Read line of books that
\nLittle Simon has been releasing. However, this is a Pre-Level 1 book,
\nas opposed to the rest of the Peanuts books in the line which
\nare all Level 2. This means that it’s aimed at the youngest
\npossible readers.<\/p>\n
For a full schedule of upcoming Peanuts books, head to:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/upcoming.htm
\n
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\n
\nPEANUTS WILL POP UP<\/p>\n
Coming in Spring of 2004 is PEANUTS: A POP-UP CELEBRATION, an
\n18 page long pop-up book with pop-ups and interactive pages
\nbased on some of the essential Peanuts scenes (Snoopy on his
\ndoghouse, the football kick, etc.) This will be available in a
\n$19.95 standard edition and a $150 limited edition. Paige
\nBraddock is adapting the art.
\n
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\n
\nSCHULZ: GREAT CARTOONIST, LOUSY BOOK<\/p>\n
After years of looking, I have finally landed myself a copy of
\nCHARLES SCHULZ: GREAT CARTOONIST, part of the Reaching Your Goal
\nseries of biographies for kids. While we’ve seen a number of
\nsuch biographies aimed at school libraries come out over the
\npast few years, this predates them all, having been published
\nby Rourke Enterprises in 1989.<\/p>\n
It’s a short book, a little over 1000 words on 24 pages. It’s
\nnot the most interesting writing for kids (and certainly not
\nfor adults), but at least author Marilyn Mascola’s words are
\nmore accurate than some of the other such books that have come
\nout. Oh, it’s not true that Schulz was living at 1 Snoopy Place
\nat the time (that is the office address), and it’s not true
\nthat United Features decided to put the strip in 8 papers
\n(rather that’s how many papers chose to run the strip), but
\nthese statements are merely condesations of the truth. <\/p>\n
It’s the pictures that make this book particularly bad. Instead
\nof relying on photographs as most such books do, every page of
\nthe book has a full-color illustration by Luciano Lazzarino,
\nwhose drawings I find to be poorly proportioned and unappealing.
\nHe was also likely working with limited reference material. His
\nlikenesses of Schulz are poor. And in terms of facts one might
\nderive from the images: no, Schulz did not have Charlie Brown’s
\nzig-zag pattern on every shirt and vest he ever wore. No, Li’l
\nFolks was not a strip of three horizontal panels. No, the
\nReuben Award isn’t a plaque. No, the New York Times does not
\nand never has carried the strip (that paper doesn’t have a
\ncomics section). No, in 1950 there was not a building taller
\nthan the Empire State Building a mere block away from it. And
\nso on…<\/p>\n
(I just realized that there’s an interior shot of an upper
\nfloor office in a New York skyscraper with a wall of
\nwindows and a door on that same wall… perhaps such doors
\nwere handy for failed stock brokers during the crash of
\n1929, but in general having a door on the outside wall
\nof an upper level of a skyscraper is a Bad Idea.)
\n
\n———————————————————————
\n
\nFURTHER CONVERSATIONS<\/p>\n
If you read the book CHARLES M. SCHULZ: CONVERSATIONS, collecting
\na number of interviews with Schulz from across his career,
\nthen you might want to know that the same publisher is
\nlaunching similar volumes with other cartoonists.<\/p>\n
CARL BARKS: CONVERSATIONS:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1578065011 in paperback
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1578065003 in hardcover
\n
\n(That’s the inventor of Scrooge McDuck!)<\/p>\n
MILTON CANIFF: CONVERSATIONS:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1578064384 in paperback
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1578064376 in hardcover
\n
\n(the man behind Steve Canyon and Terry And The Pirates)<\/p>\n
And, of course, if you want CHARLES M. SCHULZ: CONVERSATIONS,
\nyou can still get it:
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1578063051 in paperback
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1578063043 in hardcover <\/p>\n
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\n
\nAnother newsletter is over, and I shall do my little song and
\ndance… more news when there’s more news, send me your
\ncomments, complaints, questions, changed email addresses, and
\npeanut butter cups. Don’t take any wooden pickels, and I’ll
\nsee you next time.<\/p>\n
–Nat
\n
\n proprietor
\n
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