Beagleflash!

The DVD of Snoopy’s Reunion is now shipping. And don’t overlook the second special on it, It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown. I’ve found that there’s a surprising amount of love out there for the Flashbeagle.

And hey, as long as I’m posting – if any of you are comic book people as well as comic strip folks, my pal Len Wein had a major fire in his home. The family is fine, although they lost a dear pet. They also lost a lot of things that cannot be restored – significant original comic book artwork. And they lost something that can be replaced, but it’s a pain in the neck to do so – their copies of all of Len’s hundreds of comic books he’s written (and for those who don’t know who Len is: that Wolverine movie that’s about to open up? Those Swamp Thing movies? The upcoming Human Target TV series? Len and his talented artistic collaborators created all those characters.) So some of us having been sending him our copies of his works. Go here for more on the effort and a list of what books are still needed.

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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 …