* COMPLETE PEANUTS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER
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\n* AAUGH.COM INTERVIEWS A PEANUTS BOOK EDITOR
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\n* NUMBERS CONFUSE ME
\n
\n* THESE JAPANESE BOOKS REALLY COOK<\/p>\n
COMPLETE PEANUTS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER<\/p>\n
You can now preorder The Complete Peanuts Volume 1, which reprints
\nall of the newspaper strips from 1950, 1951, and 1952. Just go to
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?156097589X<\/p>\n
But just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should
\ndo it. If you order it now, you’ll pay the full cover price of
\n$28.95. While the book is worth that, you can do better. I can’t say
\nfor sure when, but sometime in the six months before the book comes
\nout, we’ll be able to offer you a better deal.
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\nAAUGH.COM INTERVIEWS A PEANUTS BOOK EDITOR<\/p>\n
I’ll admit it, I always like getting those little notes from people
\nwho just discovered AAUGH.com and like it. But it was a special
\nthrill when the note came from Wallace Exman, who edited Peanuts
\nbooks at both World (the original publisher of books adapting the
\nanimated specials) and Holt Rinehart and Winston (publisher of strip
\ncollections, original books, and books adaptating the animated
\nmovies.) Seeing my chance, I pounced and got a short Peanuts book
\nnerd interview with him. You can read it at
\n
http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/guide\/exman.shtml
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NUMBERS CONFUSE ME<\/p>\n
I had known for a while that Budget Books in Australia
\npublished their own editions of at least some of Ravette
\nBooks’s numbered Snoopy Stars series.<\/p>\n
However, it wasn’t until I received one of these books
\nthat I discovered that, while they issued the same
\nbooks, they numbered them differently. Snoopy Stars As
\nMan’s Best Friend, number 6 in the Ravette series,
\nis #4 in the Budget Books series. To make matters worse,
\nin the back of the Budget Books edition is a numbered
\nlist of the 5 books in their Snoopy Stars series, but
\nthe numbers on the list aren’t the numbers on the book
\n(…Man’s Best Friend is #1 on the list.)<\/p>\n
All this complication in addition to the fact that
\nRavette published revised editions in this series
\nwithout marking them as such, that more recently
\nthey’ve reissued the same books under different
\ntitles and collected them into compilations under
\nyet further title…. suddenly, I’m reminded of just
\nwhy I thought the world needed a website to sort this
\nall out.<\/p>\n
If any of you have any of the Budget Books editions
\nof the Snoopy Stars books, I’d be interested in knowing:
\n
\n 1) Which title it is
\n
\n 2) What number it is (the number is in a star on the spine)
\n
\n 3) Whether the pages are numbered
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\nTHESE JAPANESE BOOKS REALLY COOK<\/p>\n
Mr. Deliveryman left me a package today. Or maybe it was Ms.
\nDeliveryman, the box was just left on the stoop. It was a shipment
\nfrom Japan of 6 Peanuts books I’d ordered. Thing is, I didn’t know
\nwhat they were when I ordered them, all I had to go off of was the
\ntitle and the cover picture.<\/p>\n
Turns out, half of them are cookbooks, with full-color photos of
\nthe food mixed with Peanuts pictures and strips.<\/p>\n
While all three have English-language titles as their primary
\ntitles, SITTING TOGETHER EATING TOGETHER is the only one of the
\nthree with the recipes in English. This one is broken up into
\n12 chapters, one for each month, So January’s chapter is NEW
\nYEAR’S PARTY, with appropriate food for that holiday. April
\nis A WONDERFUL LUNCH BOX, with foods you could take to school,
\nsuch as Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwiches or Baby Quiche. May
\nis BOYS BE AMBITIOUS!, while August is ENJOY!? SUMMER CAMP.<\/p>\n
SNOOPY CASUAL RESTAURANT covers soups, sandwiches, pastas,
\npizzas, and snacks. For emulating a casual restaurant, the
\nfood is presented in a very pretty manner. In fact, making
\nthe food photogenic sometimes trumps making the food
\npractical; for example, you really shouldn’t put ketchup on
\nthe outside of your hotdog bun.<\/p>\n
But the book that really inspired this purchase was SNOOPY
\nAMERICAN SWEETS; I was intrigued by the cover with photos of
\ndonuts surrounding Snoopy. As a recipe book, they’re using
\nquestionable definitions of both “American” and “sweets”.
\nThere are odd-looking deserts here that I don’t recognize,
\nand much of the book focuses on pancakes and waffles.<\/p>\n
I also got two volumes of PEANUTS KEY WORDS, which appears
\nto be an educational series. Each two-page spread in these
\nsmall hardcover books has a strip on one side (English
\nsubtitled in Japanese), and an English word relevant to the
\nstrip on the other side with an essay in Japanese. Whether
\nthe essay is defining the word or just musing on the topic,
\nI cannot tell.<\/p>\n
Finally, there’s issue 9 of SNOOPY MAGAZINE. This is a
\nreasonably thick magazine not because of its page count –
\nit’s a mere 66 pages – but because many of the pages are
\nstiff cardboard. These are colorful story pages for the
\nyoung set, and lucky for the American reader, they’re
\narranged left-to-right with English text in addition to
\nthe Japanese. The pages are die cut, making for half-pages,
\npages shaped like Snoopy, pages were you can see through to
\nthe next page. There are even pages with little flaps you
\nopen to reveal hidden things. Plus there’s a sheet of
\nstickers, including the only sticker I’ve seen of Molly
\nVolley. And there are a couple of cardboard items that you
\ncan punch out and put together. Then there are photo-filled
\narticles about the Peanuts portions of Universal Studios
\nJapan, the Schulz Museum, on new Peanuts products, and one
\nthat looks to be about the history of Snoopy dolls. These
\nare all in Japanese (which is on the extremely long list
\nof languages I do not read.) Even the ads are for Peanuts
\nproducts, including a cell phone with Peanuts displays and
\npuzzles on its full-color screens.<\/p>\n
This all ran about 10,000 yen, including shipping to the
\nUnited States. That’s about ninety bucks. If anyone’s
\ninterested, I’ll post information about ordering Japanese
\nbooks next issue — so let me know if you’re interested.
\n
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\n
\nI hope that fills your needs for Peantus book information until,
\nwell, whenever I have enough news for another newsletter. Keep
\nthose questions and requests coming.<\/p>\n
And hey, if any of you are heading to super*MARKET, the
\nindependent comics convention at UCLA November 8th and 9th, be
\nsure to stop by the About Comics table and say “Hi!”<\/p>\n
\n–Nat, proprietor
\n
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com
\n
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