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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Last day to get that downloadable Peanuts deal

As I type this, there’s a bit under 24 hours left to go in that Humble Bundle deal where you can download the complete run of Peanuts for $25. If you’ve been taking time to think about it… well, it’s time to stop thinking! (Offer good in the US. Not …

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CORRECTED LINK — All of Peanuts, $25

If you’re good with digital books, Fantagraphics and Humble Bundle have a frankly amazing deal. You can get 43 Peanuts books in download form for $25. What does this mean? You get every Peanuts newspaper strip, via The Complete Peanuts, every Peanuts Sunday strip in color via Peanuts Every Sunday, …

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Peanuts for penguins

In late October 1957, newspaper reporter Rolla Crick meant to be visiting the US Navy’s south pole station (Amundsen-Scott) only briefly, but the engine on the US Navy Neptune that had brought him and others there had  broken down and they were all stuck to stay there for weeks. That’s …