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In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named Little Angel or, depending on the press release, Little Good Guy . The character appears in promotions for a few years. The reworks of him, which are
Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is this volume that my daughter and wife (two separate people, let me be clear) found at Kinokuniya, a chain selling Japanese books at eighteen US locations. This paperback, which bears no English title as some Japanese books do, has a title that
As some of you know, the color collection of Schulz s late-1950s newspaper feature It s Only a Game that I published in 2013 is a bit weird namely, the book s spine is not on the left, as with a normal English book. No, the spine is on the top, and
The board book Letters to the Great Pumpkin is fairly straightforward on its goals. Linus decides that a letter-writing campaign is just the thing to get that legendary gourd to appear in his pumpkin patch, and various Peanuts characters each write a letter to the Great Pumpkin that reflects their personality
Thursday was all about the San Diego Comic-Con for me woke up at 4 AM, drove down to Anaheim, caught the first train from there to San Diego, walked from the train station to the convention center, spent most of my time there walking around the convention center, then walked
I ve finally got the line-up of things that will be at the Peanuts shop at Comic-Con but before I get to that, let me note that my Comic-Con plans have changed, and I will now be there only on Thursday. If anyone wants to mee with me, it can probably be
The famous San Diego Comic-Con is just a couple weeks away, and if you were hoping to go but don t have tickets yet, well, you re far too late. These sell out months in advance. (But if you happen to be in San Diego during this time, keep reading, there s some
We just purchased a (used) display case, so it finally became time to put together the set of Japanese Snoopy s Book Cafe miniatures that I d purchased a couple years back. Rather than using the two-pieces-of-cardboard backdrop that comes with the set, we purchased a larger, plastic set of walls and
I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can t think of
We ve got the first listed Peanuts book for 2027, and while it s a board book for kids, it s going to have something for all you Freida fans. In Snoopy s Bunny Fun!, Freida wants Snoopy to go after rabbits, but Snoopy has other plans. And if bunnies are your thing, January