book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Charlie Brown Disappointment

So I found a listing on eBay that offered four old issues of Children’s Digest, a magazine that reprinted and excerpted stories for kids. Included in the lot was the December 1970 issue. Well, I glommed on to that one, because with the cover announcement of “Peanuts” Feature: A CHARLIE …

Upcoming releases

Collectible cards

Penguin Workship has announced the Happiness Is a Four-Book Classic Box Set, an October release which will contain their reprints of I Need All the Friends I Can Get, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket, and Love Is Walking Hand in Hand, all for …

Product

Peanuts things to put together

My family gave me two Peanuts gifts for the holidays, both from Japan. One is this glow-in-the-dark jigsaw puzzle, That will be assembled on some Sunday morning at a breakfast table with bagels. The other was a full set of six blind-box weather-themed Peanuts dioramas, the Snoopy Weather Terrarium set. …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

There will be a Christmas in 2022!

It’s the new year, and with a new year comes, of course a new Christmas, waiting just around the corner. Well, not around the near corner, but it’s somewhere around the far corner of the year, so we might as well be working toward it. Will this year bring us …

Classic finds

Mission Unaccomplished

In response to my earlier post about the two “It’s Only a Game” pamphlets, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin Clark dropped me a line. Did he have information about the where, the when, the how, and the why these were published? No, but he did have one devastating fact to give …

Classic finds

It’s Only A… Wait, What Is It?

Today, I finally obtained an item that I’d sought for  a decade, something that I had once let slip through my hands when it went for three figures at an auction, but hadn’t seen available since. And now it’s in my hands… but I still can’t tell you what it …

Snoopy's doghouse with the image of Captain America's shield.
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Latest Marvel Cinematic Universe Peanuts reference

For those of you keeping score (and you know who you are… at least I hope you do, because I sure don’t): In the 5th episode of Hawkeye, which was released today, the recording of the song “Christmastime is Here” from the start of A Charlie Brown Christmas is heard.

Upcoming releases

Books in a box

Titan Comics has announced that March will bring us  Peanuts: The Classic Peanuts Collection, a boxed set of their reprints of the early Peanuts strip collections. This will include the volumes Peanuts, More Peanuts and  Good Ol’ Charlie Brown. All the fun of Peanuts books, combined with all the fun of a …

Animated Peanuts

New New Years Eve special now streaming

Apple TV+ has released their promised new New Years Eve special,  Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne. I had to tell you before I took the time to watch it, so no review from me!

Comic book Peanuts

Obscenuts

I utterly accidentally stumbled across this 1981 piece noting that the syndicate was suing Minnesota-based comics publisher Edward Alexander for having produced an all-too-adult take on the Peanuts characters. This is bothering me because it’s not something I’ve ever heard of before, nor am I finding any other reference to …