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In this issue:
\n* IT’S THE 1995 STRIPS, CHARLIE BROWN
\n* REVIEW: TOM EVERHART
\n* ORDERABLE LI’L FOLKS
\n* MORE ON “IT’S ONLY A GAME”
\n* LUCY MUST BE ON DVD
\n* OTHER PEANUTS BOOK NEWS<\/p>\n
IT’S THE 1995 STRIPS, CHARLIE BROWN<\/p>\n
I’ll admit it – my best inside elf at Ballantine Books
\nis no longer on the inside. So when they named their new
\nstrip collection IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, SNOOPY
\nand promoted it with a focus on Snoopy as the world’s
\ngreatest novelist, I reckoned it was probably a collection
\nof Snoopy writing strips. Such things have been done
\nbefore.<\/p>\n
Instead, it turns out to be the book that so many were
\nwaiting for: a collection of all of the strips from
\n1995. This is the last of Ballantine’s series collecting
\nthe last 5 years of the strip. This time, they are
\nrunning all of the strips in black and white, even
\nthe Sunday ones. That doesn’t mean there’s no color
\nin the book, it’s just not in the strips. The
\nremaining area of each page is a color design with
\nthe Peanuts characters.<\/p>\n
1995 has a fair amount of Rerun strips, with him
\nseeking companionship of a dog and playing basketball.
\nIt also features a run featuring Charlie Brown as a
\nsurprisingly competent marbles player. Yes, during the
\n1990s CB was granted success in a surprising number
\nof ways. We also get the usual sports, Snoopy as
\nauthor, lawyer, and flying ace, and the key theological
\nquestion: did Jesus have a dog?<\/p>\n
You can buy this for $11.95 now (hey, wait, it’s
\ndiscounted to $9.56 at the moment!), or you can wait
\nover a decade for the Complete Peanuts set to get up
\nto 1995. It’s up to you.<\/p>\n
Get it at http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0345442725
\n========================================================
\nREVIEW: TOM EVERHART<\/p>\n
I stopped by the Charles M. Schulz Museum a couple
\nweeks back, catching the exhibit of Tom Everhart
\nPeanuts paintings. You’ve probably seen some of the
\nimages from these, but it really is different seeing
\nthem in person. First off, they’re huge. Secondly,
\nthey’re very textural. The physicality of the paint,
\nthe stamped circles of color, it all enhances the
\nexperience. The exhibit is just about over; if you
\nwant to catch it, get out there quickly, before it’s
\nreplaced by the new exhibit on Peanuts parodies from
\nMad magazine. (Of course, that should be interesting
\nas well!)<\/p>\n
The museum put out a catalog of the exhibit. TOM
\nEVERHART: UNDER THE INFLUENCE is a book with a
\nforeword by the museum’s director Ruth Gardner
\nBegell, an intro by Jean Schulz, a six page
\narticle by Everhart about his work with Peanuts,
\nand an article by Michael Schwaeger, an art
\nhistory professor from Sonoma State University.
\n(It was particularly interesting to read this book
\nin close succession with the 1995 strips; when
\nSchwaeger says “Look longer still [at the paintings]
\nand you notice that many of the compositions, as
\nwell as the characters’ poses and facial expressions,
\nare a little different – even unfamiliar – from
\nthose you’ve seen in the Peanuts strip” it seems
\nthat he’s unaware that the character images are
\ntaken directly from the strip. Had he read the 1995
\nstrips, he would’ve seen several of the sources
\nfor the Everhart images in the book.)<\/p>\n
After that, we get the main attraction: large
\ncolor images of the Everhart pictures. A couple of
\nthem are even two-page foldouts.<\/p>\n
Should you get this? Maybe. The material is good,
\nbut there’s not much of it. There are only 12 of
\nthose full-color images (although there are some
\nsmaller illustrations along with the articles)
\nin a paperback book that’s a mere 48 pages for
\n$30.<\/p>\n
Should you buy it? If you’re a big fan of the
\nEverhart paintings, yup (particularly since the
\nprevious museum catalog of his work, from the
\nSuntory Museum in Japan, is hard to find at any
\nprice.) If you’re a compulsive Peanuts book nut
\nlike I am, of course you want it. And if money
\nis no object, then there’s no reason not to.<\/p>\n
You can order your copy from the Schulz Museum
\nwebsite at:
\n http:\/\/schulzmuseum.org\/store\/books\/books.html
\n========================================================
\nORDERABLE LI’L FOLKS<\/p>\n
And hey, an even better reason to head over to the
\nmuseum website is to pick up LI’L BEGINNINGS, the
\nbook collecting Schulz’s pre-Peanuts cartoons.
\nYes, that one’s $30 as well, but at 300 pages
\nand with hundreds of cartoons, it’s a bit easier
\nto justify. This is the book I reviewed last
\nnewsletter. They’ve got the book in stock now,
\nready to go. Go to the same website address mentioned
\nabove to order it from the museum.
\n========================================================
\nMORE ON “IT’S ONLY A GAME”<\/p>\n
Some of you responded quite positively to the earlier
\nannouncement that my company, About Comics, would be
\nreleasing a collection of “It’s Only A Game”, Schulz’s
\nshort-lived syndicated comics feature from the late
\n1950s. (On the other hand, at least one email seemed
\nto imply that there was no such comic and I was making
\nit up!)<\/p>\n
Well, if you thought that was good news, here’s even
\nbetter news for you: Cartoonist Jim Sasseville, who
\nanonymously collaborated with Schulz on “It’s Only A Game”
\nfor most of its run (and whom some of you know for his work
\non the Peanuts comic book magazine stories) is providing
\ncommentary for the book. It will be nice to finally put
\nhis name on this work. Not only that, but editing
\nthe book is Derrick Bang, a name you should recognize
\nfrom his work on Li’l Beginnings and 50 Years Of
\nHappiness, both available through the Schulz Museum
\nstore. All three of us are working hard on making this
\na good book.<\/p>\n
The details about format, price, and release date are
\nstill being worked out. Keep watching this newsletter
\nfor further info.
\n========================================================
\nLUCY MUST BE ON DVD<\/p>\n
The DVD release of the recent Peanuts special LUCY MUST
\nBE TRADED, CHARLIE BROWN is now shipping. This is a longer
\nversion of the special than what saw air. The DVD includes
\ntwo other baseball-themed specials, THE CHARLIE BROWN
\nALL-STARS (which was one of the early specials — if you
\nlike the quality of the classic holiday specials but haven’t
\nseen this one, you should) and IT’S SPRING TRAINING,
\nCHARLIE BROWN. Order them now at:
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B000127LYA
\n========================================================
\nOTHER PEANUTS BOOK NEWS<\/p>\n
Now shipping are:
\n * The kiddie book adaptation of LUCY MUST BE
\nTRADED, CHARLIE BROWN
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0689865562
\n * Another baseball-themed storybook for kids (Little
\nSimon is doing a number of these in roughly the same
\nformat as the animated adaptations, doing either
\nthings that sound like sequels to the animated
\nspecials or which cover holidays that the animated
\nspecials skip), MAKE A TRADE, CHARLIE BROWN:
\n http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0689865589
\n * The shaped board book BABY WOODSTOCK’S EASTER
\nEGGS http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0689857829<\/p>\n
Announced for September is THE GREAT PUMPKIN STRIKES
\nAGAIN, another one of those animated sequelly kids
\nbooks.
\n========================================================
\nAnd so ends another journey through the AAUGH.com
\nnews. So hey, why don’t you head over to
\nNAT ADD THIS and order the book of 1995 strips…
\nand if you’re willing to wait to have it delivered
\nat the same time as The Complete Peanuts volume 1
\n(which is at http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?156097589X ),
\nyou can even get free shipping in the U.S. for both.<\/p>\n
I’ll be at the WizardWorld Los Angeles comics
\nconvention in Long Beach, California on the 20th
\nand 21st of this month. If you’re there, stop by
\nthe About Comics table and say hi!<\/p>\n
And thanks for keeping me informed of your email
\naddress changes! Keep those coming, folks, as well
\nas your questions’n’suggestions!<\/p>\n
–Nat
\n proprietor
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