little Peanutsy bits

In the US, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs Tuesday on ABC. Next Sunday, November 2nd, Fox will be airing the 19th annual Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror special… and this year’s includes their parody of The Great Pumpkin.

A friend of the blog points us toward a new Snoopy game that’s been released for the Nintendo DS in Japan.

That great 60% discount on the boxed set of Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe went away. But now it’s back! So if you’ve been meaning to get around to ordering it… do it now.

Snoopy's Story BoxA couple years ago, I stumbled across a boxed set of board books called Snoopy’s Story Box, but I didn’t have any place to steer you toward to order it. Now I do – and at a nice price!

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Discounts
Holiday Fantagraphics Peanuts discounts

The mighty Fantagraphics is running a bit of a sale for direct purchasers, trying to grab them early Christmas bucks. The list of things that are 30% off with free shipping can be seen here, They do include the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday as well as a couple of …

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Bargains to be had

Amazon bargain prices can disappear at a moment’s notice, so I cannot guarantee these will still be there when you click on them, but: the recent hardcover rerelease of Chip Kidd’s Only What’s Necessary is 63% off and Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator (i.e., the award-winning biography …

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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 …