In this issue:
\n
\n* CHARLIE BROWN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL
\n
\n* DOUBLE BRITISH BOOKS
\n
\n* SCHULZ MUSEUM ANNIVERSARY
\n
\n* LI’L FOLKS, BIG NEWS
\n
\n* SOME TEES ARE JUST A TEASE<\/p>\n
CHARLIE BROWN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL<\/p>\n
The new themed strips collection IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL, CHARLIE BROWN!
\nhas now been released. This paperback collection has 315 strips
\nabout school and education. Unlike previous school-oriented
\ncollections, this book draws from across the entire run of the
\nstrip, starting with strips from the very first year. And there
\nare strips in here which I’m fairly sure have not been in any
\nother U.S. book, although there are also some familiar favorites
\nhere.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of good strips in here, and while it does have
\nsome of the curious faults that plagued A Peanuts Christmas
\n(strips pulled out of the middle of continuities, strips with
\nonly a passing relevance to the theme at hand), it has much
\nless of that problem than the Christmas book, and the design
\nwork on the book is generally better. The strips are all published
\nin black and white (even the Sundays, alas) against backgrounds
\ndesigned to look like the covers or interiors of old school
\ntheme books. The design doesn’t overwhelm the reading experience.
\nThey do vary the number of strips per page, frequently running
\nonly one daily on a page, but the total number of strips is
\nrespectable so this is not a problem.<\/p>\n
A few interesting errors crop up. On page 12, a panel of a strip
\nis accidentally repeated, leaving a panel out of the gag. And
\nwhile the strips are generally presented in order of publication,
\nthere are a couple slip-ups along the way. Most notable is the
\nlast strip run, which bears the date of April 4th, 2000… which
\nwas after the last new strip appeared. This is actually the
\nrerun of a strip from 1974, and should have appeared toward the
\ncenter of the book.<\/p>\n
They have left the date and copyright notices on the strips,
\nwhich shouldn’t matter to the casual reader but is good news
\nfor the more obsessive among us. And it does let us indeed
\nverify that the early strip where Charlie Brown says he was
\ntoo young for school came after strips where he said he was
\ngoing to school.<\/p>\n
All in all, a nice book, and one worth having or giving.
\nYou can order it now at http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0345452836 <\/p>\n
(My favorite I-don’t-recall-seeing-these-before strips in
\nthis book include a couple about the banning of a Helen
\nSweetstory book, and one early 1950s strip in which a
\npassing comment from Lucy suggests that she believes her
\nparents bought her.)
\n
\n========================================================================
\n
\nDOUBLE BRITISH BOOKS<\/p>\n
You bought them when they were the Snoopy Stars series! You bought
\nthem again when they were reprinted as the Snoopy Features series!
\nOkay, looking at my ordering record, you didn’t buy the Snoopy
\nFeatures series, but dadgummit, you’re getting another chance!
\nRavette Publishing is launching the SNOOPY 2-IN-1 series, taking
\ntwo books of the Snoopy Features series (strip collections built
\naround specific themes, not all Snoopy) and releasing them as a
\nsingle volume.<\/p>\n
The first two volumes in this series are being released
\nsimultaneously in September. Remember, these orders will
\ngo through the UK branch of Amazon, so you cannot mix them
\nwith regular AAUGH.com orders.<\/p>\n
SNOOPY FEATURES AS THE FLYING ACE
\n
\n + SNOOPY FEATURES AS THE LITERARY ACE
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/to.htm?1841611778 <\/p>\n
\nSNOOPY FEATURES AS THE FITNESS FANATIC
\n
\n + SNOOPY FEATURES AS THE MATCHMAKER
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/to.htm?1841611786 <\/p>\n
This month brings the UK its own editions of some of the
\nserial strip reprints:<\/p>\n
I TOLD YOU SO, YOU BLOCKHEAD (incomplete collection of 1992’s strips)
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/to.htm?1841611824 <\/p>\n
NOW THAT’S PROFOUND, CHARLIE BROWN (incomplete collection of
\n1991’s strips)
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/to.htm?1841611816 <\/p>\n
IT’S A DOG’S LIFE, SNOOPY (complete collection of 1998 strips)
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/uk\/to.htm?1841611794
\n
\n========================================================================
\n
\nSCHULZ MUSEUM ANNIVERSARY<\/p>\n
The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California is celebrating
\nits first anniversary August 15th-18th, with a new exhibit
\n(From Elzie C. Segar to Frank Wing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Legacy Continued),
\npreviews of the next animated special, and special features:<\/p>\n
Friday, August 15th: an appearance by Yoshiteru Otani, the
\nartist who designed the big wooden Morphing Snoopy sculture
\nand the tile mural where a big Peanuts picture is actually made
\nup of thousands of strips.<\/p>\n
Saturday, August 16th: Lee Mendelson, producer of the Peanuts
\nspecials, will be speaking. Derrick Bang, maintainer
\nof the Peanuts FAQ, a key guy over at the Peanuts Collectors Club,
\nand author of 50 Years of Happiness: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz
\nwill be on hand as well. Plus, free root beer floats for
\neveryone, and door prizes throughout the day!<\/p>\n
Sunday, August 17th: More root beer floats! More door prizes!
\nand Paige Braddock, creative director of Charles M. Schulz Creative A
\nssociates, will talk about the Peanuts licensing process. Paige
\nis a talented cartoonist in her own right, and her Jane’s World
\nseries is available both as an online comic strip and comic
\nbook.<\/p>\n
Monday, August 18th: Free admission! Plus, Pearls Before Swine
\ncartoonist Stephan Pastis talks about how Schulz influence the world
\nof cartooning.
\n
\n========================================================================
\n
\nLI’L FOLKS, BIG NEWS<\/p>\n
Derrick Bang (see above) and the Schulz Museum are producing
\na publication about the proto-Peanuts panel from the St.
\nPaul Pioneer-Press, LI’L FOLKS! Those early Schulz cartoons
\nabout kids, seen by few, are a wealth of both funny material
\nand insight into where Peanuts came from, so I’m quite
\ninterested to see what these folks are offering up.<\/p>\n
I will, of course, have more details for you as the
\nas-yet-unannounced release date approaches…
\n
\n========================================================================
\n
\nSOME TEES ARE JUST A TEASE<\/p>\n
About a month back, Camp Snoopy sent out an email announcing a
\nbunch of Linus-related items, to go along with the Looking For
\nLinus statue exhibit currently going on in St. Paul. There
\nwas one item that particularly caught my eye:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.campsnoopy.com\/detail.asp?product_id=779918<\/p>\n
Go there and take a look at that “Linus Swinging Tee” and
\nsee if you notice what I did.
\n
\n ….<\/p>\n
You noticed? Good. That’s right. It looks like a perfectly
\nnice shirt, one that many people will be glad to wear, but
\nthat claim that it’s “sure to please either your Linus or
\nSnoopy fan”, that’s not going anywhere. Because, of course,
\nit’s not a Linus Swinging Tee at all. It’s a Rerun Swinging
\nTee. The art on it is taken from the August 10th, 1997 strip.<\/p>\n
Now, Rerun and Linus are frequently easy to confuse (there
\nis a reason he’s named “Rerun”, after all.) I wouldn’t pick
\non these guys, but:
\n
\n 1) Camp Snoopy exists solely as a Peanuts licensee. They
\nare in the Peanuts business. They should know better.
\n
\n 2) They were informed of their error, one which might lead
\npeople to buy the wrong item as a gift for Linus fans, over
\na month ago. I gave them plenty of chance to correct their
\ncatalog. Hey, if they insist on looking like idjits, there’s
\nonly so much one can do to help them.
\n
\n————————————————————————<\/p>\n
Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns!
\nI’ll send out more news when I have it. <\/p>\n
–Nat
\n
\n proprietor
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this issue: * CHARLIE BROWN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL * DOUBLE BRITISH BOOKS * SCHULZ MUSEUM ANNIVERSARY * LI’L FOLKS, BIG NEWS * SOME TEES ARE JUST A TEASE CHARLIE BROWN GOES BACK TO SCHOOL The new themed strips collection IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL, CHARLIE BROWN! has now been … <\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}