The rest of the 1970s specials

Shipping in June is Peanuts 1970’s Collection volume 2, a DVD set which includes:

  • Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
  • You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
  • It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown
  • It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown
  • What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown
  • You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown

So that’s all the Peanuts prime-time specials from the second half of the 1970s. There will also be a documentary featurette on the specials of that era.

Share the news!
Animated Peanuts
Officially, it’s a “Super Chubby”

When I reviewed the 2015 book adapting the TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, I had this to say: The book that’s titled It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (adaptation by Kara McMahon, art by Scott Jeralds) takes basically the whole special and simplifies everything. It briefly tells you that Charlie …

Upcoming releases
Not all strip reprints are books

Coming next April is Happiness is a Postcard, a boxed set of fifty “unique” (by which they mean there are no repeats in the box) postcards. And some of them, going by the promo image, are reprints of Sunday strips. So that doesn’t count as a “book” for my list of …

Animated Peanuts
New Peanuts animated special DELAYED!

Apple TV+  has changed the release date for Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical from the planned a-week-from-today date to four weeks later, August 15. You can see the new date in the headline of the press release announcing the release of the show. But that press release has a release date …