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The AAUGH Blog talks to Peanut of the Year, 1956!
Sep 17, 2026 · original
I give up too quickly. A couple weeks after I wrote to the address that I found for 1956’s Peanut of the Year Ruth Figi, I reckoned the note had not reached her. The internet has a lot of out of date addresses for people who have since moved or died. Or perhaps she had just chosen to ignore the answer. So, I published my blog post about the Peanuts of the Year contest . Ruth Figi (center) and friend at an arts event, 2023. Courtesy Ruth Figi, all rights reserved, not for reuse. It turns out that she was just being cautious, making sure that this stranger who was reaching out to her was not some kind of dangerous weirdo. Having received assurances that I am a totally non-dangerous weirdo, she gave me a call, two days after the article was published. Ruth had quite a year in 1956. Early in the year, she had ignored her parents admonition not to go night skiing. After all, her parents were
Old newspaper finds: Peanut of the Year, 1956
Sep 11, 2026 · original
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 winner, eight year old Ruth Ida Figi (who you can see here ) had been having an interesting year; on January 4th, she had broken her leg in a ski accident, so I guess she was already in a cast. It’s the awarding of the prize that caught my eye. Charles Schulz selected the winner from four finalists, but it was part of a much larger event… specifically, the “Aquatennial Star Night and Coronation”, which is partly a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Minneapolis but more largely a beauty pagaent. Forty presumably-beautiful women were there, with the “Queen of the Lakes” to be named (as well as several other titles.) Movie star Ann
See some Schulz originals in Indiana
Sep 2, 2026 · original
The Anderson Museum of Art in lovely (I’ll assume) Anderson, Indiana has an interesting exhibition coming up next month…. It focuses on artists from Indiana, and look at all the cool things it covers, There’s Garfield! And Baby Blues! Blondie! Marvin! But… there’s no Snoopy. What’s it doing on this blog? That center square in the bottom row? That’s from Young Pillars , Schulz’s single-panel cartoon series for Christian publications from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. “But Schulz isn’t from Indiana! Wasn’t born there, never lived there!” I hear you cry. True… but he got an honorary degree from Anderson College, in lovely (I’ll assume) Anderson, Indiana. He even made a reference to that in a 1974 strip . Does that sound like a bit of a stretch? Look, if you were sitting on a pile of Young Pillars originals, wouldn’t you find some excuse to show them off? So if you happen to be flying over
Charlie Brown in Repo Man
Sep 1, 2026 · original
My snoopysense went off while watching Repo Man , the offbeat punk sci-fi flick from 1984. About seven-and-a-half minutes in, titular star Emilio Estevez is silhouetted in a doorway, and on the door across the hall, there’s Charlie Brown! That’s part of a line of banners from the 1970s… in fact, it’s this one: Image swiped from a current eBay listing , if someone wants to buy it. The quote and image on the banner come from the May 24, 1967 Peanuts strip .
Review: board books two
Aug 31, 2026 · original
The two latest board books to arrive are both based around material from somewhere else. It’s Hockey Time, Franklin takes the storybook of the same name by Jason Cooper and Scott Jeralds and reformats it as a board book shaped around the image of a hockey puck. The formatting is a cute effort, but it makes the actual pages seem weird, with text often put into curved space, and with the picture looking like you’re staring at it through binoculars. The story is, well, this is really more story than a baord book should hold, too much text to the number of images. In the AAUGH Blogger’s humble opinion, board books should not have b-stories. Snoopy’s Family Dinner takes a story from The Snoopy Show and gives it board book treatment. Snoopy wants to hold a family dinner, sends out messages to all his siblings, but in the meantime ends up having dinner with his found family, the kids of the nei
Snoopy can’t give blood — but you can!
Aug 28, 2026 · original
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.) The American Red Cross has run multiple campaigns offering special Peanuts t-shirts to donors, and the response has been strong (and seems to have led to further such efforts; one member of my family has signed up for their first donation to get a Hello Kitty item that’s being offered.) But these recent events were not the first time Snoopy has been used to draw blood donors. Back in 1959, this image started showing up for blood drives: While the image is odd in some ways — to create focus, Snoopy appears to be taller than Charlie Brown — but it’s attractive and it has some nice touches. You just know that Schulz was happy trying to get the clamp that holds the pole right. I find example of this image bein
Peanuts media notes
Aug 19, 2026 · original
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! But life is full, so I will just note that it’s watchable, and it does have the Goose Eggs in it. Those of you into the smallest humans in the Peanuts cast or who just like seeing the diversity within Peanuts embraced will be glad to get your dose of Milo. Even if you’re not watching Ted Lasso , if you are a Peanuts completist and have Apple TV you may want to start up the first episode of the new season (season 4); there’s a short ad-piece running before it that integrates footage from other Apple TV shows into things, and I was happy to see a bit of Peanuts in there. Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack album as Platinum… again. It’s six times platinum. That
A thing that might have been
Aug 16, 2026 · original
In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth… and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported , they were floating the idea of naming their next album Good Grief, More Hi-Lo’s , a reference to the book Good Grief, More Peanuts that had come out less than two years before. They even talked about trying to reach out to Schulz to provide a cover for the album. I do not know if that outreach was ever attempted. All I know is that the album ended up being named The Hi-Lo’s and All That Jazz , and the cover is purely design, no figure drawing at all. (Oddly enough, if they could’ve just used the cover image from Good Grief, More Peanuts , it would actually make a good album cover, with everyone listening to… something.) Version 1.0.0
Charles’s Angel
Aug 15, 2026 · original
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 often locally done, vary in quality. This version appears to be still all Schulz, but Franksteined — they’ve copied one side of the body and flipped it to make the other. Hand sticking up out of the back. A girl angel? Radical! Little Goblin?? This one appears to be kosher. All the things! A little off-model. And this one… that thing he’s holding… I mean, this is from a 1961 high school student paper. It couldn’t possibly be meant to indicate medical reefer, right? Right??
Pinkwashing Lucy
Aug 8, 2026 · original
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 translates to Not Just Mean Lucy . This is a Lucy-themed strip collection built around the color pink. Black-and-white daily strips are now black-and-white-and-pink. Color Sunday strips? Also now black-and-white-and-pink! The strips are each printed with their original dialogue intact, and a Japanese translation printed below the image. The design makes for a visually lovely volume — not the sort of “correct” look you’d want for something like a Complete Peanuts collection, but a look that gives a certain attitude toward a themed book. Much as American volumes of translated manga are published in Ja

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