Peanuts is everywhere

No book news here. I just couldn’t help noting how the Peanuts hits the world in many places, in many ways. Between finding a page of praise of Schulz from the Pakistan Observer (which judging by their trying to pin recent terrorist attacks on the CIA, is not a lover of all things American) and seeing Peanuts used as allegory for the economic bailout situation, I’d say the cultural presence of Charlie Brown and his cohorts continues unabated.

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Peanuts v. Trump

The legal goings-on this week regarding Peanuts require a bit of a preface: while Peanuts Worldwide (or really Peanuts Holdings) owns Peanuts, they don’t own everything Peanuts. Lee Mendelson Film Productions has rights regarding the classic TV and film material. If I understand correctly (and that’s a real caveat, there are …

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Free comics and freaky musicals

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund‘s Jeff Trexler caught sight of this headline appearing to announce a very unlikely musical. And since I’m sending something out, let me note that Free Comic Book Day is coming up this Saturday. (Also, so is Comic Giveaway Day. This is the result of …

Schulz/Peanuts news
The War on Snoopy

I subscribe to the print edition of The Onion, which is America’s Finest (made-up) News Source. This is actually a paper with a long history, but switched to web only for a while. When they came back to print, I jumped on board to help fund this very special outlet that …