The other A Boy Named Charlie Brown DVD

As we mentioned recently, the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown ships later this month on DVD. However, it’s not the only DVD to carry that title. Before that movie, before even A Charlie Brown Christmas, producer Lee Mendelson worked with Schulz and animator Bill Melendez to make a documentary about Peanuts, including short animated bits. Have you seen this documentary? Probably not, unless you’ve stopped by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, where they often show it in their auditorium. You see, they never managed to sell the documentary to television, so it’s never been on the air.

But if you want to see it, now you can. As Peanuts video expert Scott McGuire recently pointed out on Usenet (and as the museum website confirms, although it’s not yet on their sales list), the Schulz Museum bookstore has gotten the right to sell the special on DVD. They don’t yet have it in their online catalog, but if you call them at (707) 579-4452, you should be able to order it for $14.95 plus shipping.

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If you love Schulz, but English, not so much…

Just out in Japan is the Japanese edition of Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, the Eisner Award-winning, Schulz Museum-published heavily illustrated book co-written by curator Benjamin L. Clark and myself! And yes, it can be shipped to the States… although it …

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A quote unquote requote book on A Charlie Brown Christmas

How can you tell that the new book “A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning”: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang” is truly an innovative work? It’s the quotation marks in the title.  Not constrained by …

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Snoopy’s Book Café

Peanuts collector Lisa, who had been showing all her finds from a recent trip to Japan, started showing off one of the Re-Ment sets of little kits that combine to make a diorama. They do lovely work, but Peanuts statuary is not what I collect, and besides, these are Japanese …