Leather-bound Halloween

If you’ve been buying those fancy leather-clad edition, then you should know that there is now an Easton Press edition of Trick or Treat!: A Peanuts Halloween. Of course, it will set you back a mere $78.

Of course, the standard, leather-free edition is still available for a much lower price!

(And hey, if you want to confuse your trick-or-treaters, give ’em Big Hunk snack size bars. Are they big? Or are they snack size? And if the small size is a snack, what do they think a standard Big Hunk is, a meal? I’m soooo confused!)

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Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

There’s been a little editing back-and-forth over at Wikipedia about what is put in the “nationality” field for the various Peanuts kids. Thing is, in what is considered absolute canon — the strip itself — this question is never actually answered. Most of the time that you see the word …

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Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you. Share the news!

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On the four panel status

For more than the first three decades of Peanuts, the daily strip was always four panels… well, no, that’s not quite 100% true, as I think of the August 31, 1954 daily strip of Patty jumping rope, but even that had panel breaks at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks …