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Jan26

More Hallmark editions

by Nat on January 26th, 2012 at 1:34 pm

I stopped by the local Hallmark store today to check on a couple things, and noticed that they had a Hallmark edition of Snoopy Loves to Doodle, that it was a separate edition was quite immediately apparent, because unlike the blue cover of the standard edition which you see here, theirs had a red cover.

Looking around further I saw another Hallmark edition there which I don’t recall having noticed before – a hardcover of Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Peanuts with a bound-in ribbon bookmark. (I am too cheap to get all of those variant editions, although I’m sure I shall regret that some day.)

Jan24

Getting Hogan’s Alley

by Nat on January 24th, 2012 at 10:20 am

Posted In: Now shipping

That new issue of Hogan’s Alley, which includes my look at Harriett Glickman and the creation of Franklin, is now available for order direct from the publisher – if you go here you’ll find it in the lower right corner of the grid of covers.

Jan24

Easter Boogle beak… er, Easter Beakle boog… er, Baster Bagel eek

by Nat on January 24th, 2012 at 9:17 am

Posted In: Now shipping

The new book adaptation of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is now shipping.

Jan19

An error in The Peanuts Collection

by Nat on January 19th, 2012 at 10:13 am

Posted In: Reviews, Classic finds, Reviews

Since I’ve chronicled factual errors in other people’s books about Peanuts, it would be unfair of me not to note when the same has popped up in my own book – in this case, in a caption which I didn’t write, but which I should have caught during the editing process.

Open your copy of The Peanuts Collection (don’t have a copy? They’re still available for more than half off their original price.) On the upper right of page 31, you’ll find a picture of a framed medal award to Schulz, with the words THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND YOUR PART IN IT. The caption describes is as having been award to Schulz for his contributions to “The American Economic System and [his] Part in It”, as though he was getting the medal in recognition of his habit of earning and spending American currency. What it’s really thanking Schulz for is his contributions to a booklet entitled “The American Economic System… and Your Part In It”, a government publication illustrated with Peanuts images which I discussed briefly here. I can understand how the caption writer misunderstood the context, but I should have caught the error. I apologize for this imperfection.