Peanuts Awesome Womenhood
Let me apologize for not keeping up with the blog; Peanuts books have been coming in, but I’ve been hectic with a variety of things, including some Peanuts-related work (we’re to the end of the process on my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures), as well as life things. One of the things …
Quilty as charged
I finally received the originally-supposed-to-come-in-January Peanuts Quilted Celebrations, a book with CD-ROM of vital files for quilting your own Peanuts materials. It has instructions for 10 different items (with an eleventh on the disk), mostly holiday items with a somewhat odd distribution (two items for St. Patty’s Day, only one …
Stinky Cecil
The folks who do Peanuts comic books generally don’t just do Peanuts comic books. For example, Paige Braddock, who not only works on the comics but is Creative Director over at the Schulz studio, has a new for-kids graphic novel Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue, in which nature’s creatures …
The Peanuts Guide to Happiness, take one
The first thing I noticed about the UK-only book The Peanuts Guide to Happiness is that they made the same strange cover design choice that I’ve seen on very few other occasions – they left the Peanuts characters off of the cover. You’d think if you were paying good money …
Crochet
I’m not going to review Peanuts Crochet, not just because there would be a strong conflict of interest for me (I am, after all, working on an upcoming book for the same publisher and packager), but because I am really in no position to judge a crochet book, and I …
The most valuable Peanuts book of all
Yesterday, I was guest speaker at my son Ben’s kindergarten class. I spent forty minutes in the morning telling them about how comic books are made and how you read them. I mentioned some of what I’ve worked on (Power Rangers got a good reaction) and what I am working …
Knowing what you’re buying helps
When buying stuff from eBay, it often helps to know exactly what you’re buying… because the seller often doesn’t. Take, for example, this item, which I recently obtained. The auction listing says that it was three books in one! What a great deal! And it’s possible that the seller really …
the first of two Dance-themed Peanuts books this year
Let me apologize for the relative silence on the blog this week; I’ve been dealing with both writing deadlines (which I’ve gotten clear of) and a cold (which I have not). But I can tell you that as promised, I now have Let’s Dance, Snoopy, and to answer the question I put …
An appropriately awkward Valentine
The latest in Fantagraphics’s series of square seasonal giftbooks is A Valentine for Charlie Brown. And it’s good at what it is, but may not be good for what you’d want it for. It’s good because it’s a collection of Valentine’s Day-themed Peanuts strips, broken up into three sections: one about …
The bookshelves get a little heavier
Three more items were added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, none of them at all large, but still, the bookshelves are filled and droopy. The more important one to me is one I’ve been seeking for years. It’s Your Town, Charlie Brown is an auction catalog/souvenir book for the statues …