I haven’t had a chance to make my way through my copy of The Complete Peanuts volume 20: 1989-1990. Life has been full of life things and business things, such as talking to a lot of enthusiastic people at that ArtNight event. I arrived just after that filled up the …

Dedicated comic book fans have recently had the chance to buy “Artists Editions”, big reprints of classic stories shot directly from the original art, so that you can see every subtlety, every bit of paste-up, all the technique that went into drawing the work. These books are relatively few (largely …

Now shipping is The Peanuts Gang Loves to Doodle, an activity book. And while I’m posting: if the replacement of the  introduction in Peanuts Guide to Life is worrying you, just stop by your local Hallmark store.  They still have an edition with the Bill Cosby intro.

As a reminder to those in Southern California: I’ll be appearing in at the Central Branch of the Pasadena Library tomorrow  from 6 to 10 PM, as part of the big ArtNight Pasadena festivities. I’ll be glad to chat, to answer questions… and if you want to buy a copy …

Peanuts Worldwide has announced that they are working with Normaal Animation and Télévisions to produce some 90-second Peanuts shorts. Some? How about 500? This French production would be offered worldwide for the TV market in fall 2014. I presume that in the US it will be gathered in half-hour blocks. …

Coming in April from Running Press is a newly revised edition of Peanuts Guide to Life, the original edition of which I reviewed back in 2005. I’m not sure whether the revisions will extend beyond the foreword; they’re dumping the one co-written by Bill Cosby, and getting a new one …

With the Super Bowl coming up on February 3rd, the fine folks at Warner Home Video will be leading into it with a release of… no, not You’re In The Super Bowl, Charlie Brown. That would be too obvious. No, instead they’re issuing a DVD entitled either Touch Down Charlie …

Yes, I have my copy of the new Kohl’s edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. This doesn’t have the textured cloth cover of some editions of this adaptation (the 2008 one with Tom Brannon art), but it does have a full-color jacket over full-color boards. It’s pretty big, at 10 …

Just released this week is Snoopy’s Holiday Collection, a new boxed set of holiday DVDs… but, well, it’s just a new box for them, with three existing DVDs: I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown, which has that special and Happy New Year, Charlie Brown on it. (Oh, and …

It was 63 years ago today that we first met Charlie Brown. Good ol’ Charlie Brown. How I hate him. (Psst: Anyone who thinks that I’m really saying that I hate Charlie Brown doesn’t know me very well, and should also go back and reread Peanuts from the very beginning.)