Schulz biography versus his family

With the release of Schulz and Peanuts a week-and-a-day away, members of Schulz’s family are taking issue with the psychological portrait it paints. And while I never met Sparky and cannot tell you how accurate their objection to the portrait is, I can confirm that the book does indeed focus more on the difficult times and goes far lighter on the last third of his life, particularly in the view of his personality. From a writing angle, that may be legitimate – conflict is more interesting. But that’s a separate question from building a full-and-accurate portrait… which is why, as I said before, there’s room for other views, other biographies.

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Peanuts v. Trump

The legal goings-on this week regarding Peanuts require a bit of a preface: while Peanuts Worldwide (or really Peanuts Holdings) owns Peanuts, they don’t own everything Peanuts. Lee Mendelson Film Productions has rights regarding the classic TV and film material. If I understand correctly (and that’s a real caveat, there are …

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Free comics and freaky musicals

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund‘s Jeff Trexler caught sight of this headline appearing to announce a very unlikely musical. And since I’m sending something out, let me note that Free Comic Book Day is coming up this Saturday. (Also, so is Comic Giveaway Day. This is the result of …

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The War on Snoopy

I subscribe to the print edition of The Onion, which is America’s Finest (made-up) News Source. This is actually a paper with a long history, but switched to web only for a while. When they came back to print, I jumped on board to help fund this very special outlet that …