Franklin

The force behind Franklin speaks!

Mashable has up an article on the creation of Franklin, including a video of a Schulz Museum interview with the woman whose urging convinced Schulz it was time to integrate the strip.

Discounts

Cheap bio for the Nook

At the moment, the Nook ebook edition of Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman is on sale for a mere buck-ninety-nine. This was an okay one, aimed at the younger set but not one of those cheaply-done part-of-a-set ones done for the youngest readers.

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Snoopy Dance by the book

Coming in July is Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance, a 160 page hardcover of quotes about dancing and life, with Snoopy cartoons. Available for preorder, of course!

General

Something I’m not buying that plays on a device I don’t own

Until a few minutes ago, I was unaware of this recording. Apparently, in response to the Royal Guardsmen’s hit “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”, a UK act called The Delicatessen released what looks to be their only single, a response song called “The Red Baron’s Revenge”. I do not know …

New releases

it’s Your Year, Charlie Brown!

As I’ve discussed before, it’s tough to make a good Peanuts prose book, because the humor of the strip is so grounded in the visuals and the rhythm they create. And the humor is so internal. Well, I’ve found a book that does the best job yet of making it …

Upcoming releases

Disappearing books

Two upcoming books that had been listed on Amazon have mysteriously disappeared. The pages for Peanuts Movie OGN and Peanuts Off Model are now Amazon’s no-such-thing-exists, what-you-talkin-about-Willis pages. However, Simon & Schuster, who distribute these books to the book trade for Boom!, still have pages for them. I have no idea what, …

Comic book Peanuts

Peanuts 23

Hitting comic book stores tomorrow is issue 23 of the Peanuts comic book series from Kaboom!, featuring stories by Vicki Scott, Donna Almandrala, and the power team of Jeff Dyer and Robert Pope (whose story is shown in full  below.) And while I’m covering Peanuts comic book news, Comic Book Resources …

Animated Peanuts

Peanuts movie trailer!

Here ya go! (If you’re getting this via email, click on the words “Peanuts movie trailer” above to get taken to the web page.  

Animated Peanuts

Peanuts movie coverage in USA Today

USAToday today has an article on next year’s Peanuts movie, including a number of images – very smily images, but these are publicity shots.

New releases

the cookie cutters came

The repeatedly-delayed Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set finally exists. It features three cookie cutters: a very-Peanutsy Snoopy head one, an acceptably in the range christmas tree, and, well, a mitten. Accompanying them is a 48 page paperback cookbook of cookie recipes bearing names like “Woodstock’s Gingerbread Cookie Heroes”, “Spike’s Biscochitos Cut-Out Cookies”, …