new Peanuts cartoons!

I’ve known this was in the works for a while, but wasn’t sure when it was going to hit: new, short downloadable Peanuts cartoons, adapting 1960s strips. The AP is reporting that the first 20 will be available via iTunes today. The first couple are free (for a limited time), beyond that it’s 99 cents for 2, or $7.99 for all twenty. I just checked, they don’t seem to be there yet, so I can’t comment on quality.

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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 …

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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!