notes of various sorts

  • My main computer is back home (yay!), and as I promised with my review of the re-release of Peanuts Philosophers, here’s a comparison of the size in the new edition and the old:
Snoopys philosophy was more expansive in the old days.
Snoopy's philosophy was more expansive in the old days.
  • Now shipping (early): My Life with Charlie Brown, where Charles Schulz’s writings about his own life are compiled.
  • This year’s It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown airing will be Wednesday, at 8 PM in most US markets. ABC, of course.
  • This year’s A Charlie Brown Christmas showing will be, ummmm, in December. Or maybe late November. Folks, it’s March. I doubt they have it figured out yet, nor are they apt to tell me if they did.
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Little Folks now available

My publishing work, my curiosity, and my interest in the work of Charles M. Schulz are not three separate things; they all meld together in various ways. For a long time, I only knew of the newspaper comic strip Little Folks by Tack Knight because Tack’s trademark on the title kept …

Animated Peanuts
A couple pops shy of a fun book; and shalom noel

Last year, in my too-completist quest for Peanuts books, I got the Snoopy Candy Fun Book, a box with a few puzzles under a flap, plus stickers and ten lollipops. Today, I was ina. store that had these, and ao I pulled up my old post to make sure that …

New releases
Review: Where’s Snoopy?

The thing it understand about the new hardcover Where’s Snoopy: A Search-and-Find Book by Natalie Shaw and Scott Jeralds is that this isn’t really a puzzle book a la Where’s Waldo? or some of those books of richly detailed photographs where it really takes careful poring over to locate the missing …