Li’l Abner versus Li’l Folks
This invterview about a just-released biography of Li’l Abner creator Al Capp (and when one says a “warts and all” biography of Capp, believe me that “warts” is putting it nicely) includes as illustration three Abner Sunday strips from 1968 which I’d not seen before, in which Capp attempts to …
minor correction
In an earlier message, I said I’d have two stories in the upcoming Peanuts issue 8, which may not be true; I somehow had placed the story I’ve written for issue 7 into issue 8. I’ll have one story in 7 (three pages of Schroeder and Lucy), at least one …
Peanuts comic book issue 6
Usually, the Peanuts preview has a portion of a story… but instead you get a whole short tale here! You can buy the full issue in your favorite comic book store starting tomorrow. (Click on each page to enlarge.) By the way, that story is penciled by the talented Vicki …
Absolutely Filthy, a worthwhile parody
Last night, I was an invited guest to see Absolutely Filthy, a full length play parodying Peanuts currently in its initial run being staged at the Sacred Fools Theater in Los Angeles. Built from material workshopped as part of the Sacred Fools’s weekly late night “Serial Killers” project, this play …
As opposed to a needless variant, here’s a needle one
While the Boom! Peanuts series has had rare alternative covers for each of their issues, some of them have had other variant cover editions. These are ones meant for sale at specific conventions. Next up is this year’s Emerald City Comicon, in Seattle March 1 through 3, and I think …
My book is dangerous
If Googe Translate is to be believed, this newly-posted review of the Italian edition of my book The Peanuts Collection claims that the book is “full of internal punching”! (They also call it “a stunning volume”, but perhaps they just mean being stunned by the punches.) Apparently, my first name …
*Schulz Style*
Plenty has been written on certain ways that Peanuts has had an impact on our language. Tech writer John Gruber points to one matter in which I’d not seen Peanuts’ influence explored before: The Rise of Bounding Asterisks in Lieu of Italicization for Styling Text. (Several folks steered me toward …
Peanuts and the Seduction of the Innocent
The book Seduction of the Innocent is getting some attention once again. Folks with a sense of comic book history will know that this book, while it didn’t start the “will somebody think of the children?!” campaign against comic books in the 1950s, was the item that really brought it …
Charlie Brown Christmas Watch 2013
As regular readers know, one of my biggest joys is keeping an eye out for new book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Well, my alarm bells went off today when I found this listing for A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles Schulz, coming this October. But then I looked closer …
Every Peanuts Every Sunday
Someone asked about my statement that Fantagraphics’s new series of books, Peanuts Every Sunday, will be reusing an already used book title. Well, here it is. This Holt, Rinehart, and Winston book first published in April, 1961, has 124 Sunday strips from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lots of …