The AAUGH Blog

In 1956, the Minneapolis Star newspaper ran a contest for “Peanut of the Year”, asking parents or kids themselves to submit letters of 150 words or fewer of whey a certain 5 to 10 year old was like a Peanuts character, or deserved to be part of the cast.

The Anderson Museum of Art in lovely (I’ll assume) Anderson, Indiana has an interesting exhibition coming up next month….

My snoopysense went off while watching Repo Man, the offbeat punk sci-fi flick from 1984.

The two latest board books to arrive are both based around material from somewhere else.

In recent years, Snoopy has been very successful in getting blood donors, particularly first-time blood donors (and you never have ongoing blood donors unless you have that first one.)

I meant to write a review of Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy, the new special on Apple TV that is so powerful, Snoopy’s in the name twice!

In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high.

In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.)

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.

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.