One for all you Al Roker completists

The intro writer for the next Complete Peanuts volume has been announced – it’s Al Roker of the Today show.

Meanwhile, today’s big Amazon deal is a fairly cheap price on a 47 inch TV. I’m going to feel guilty inviting people to my Super Bowl party in a couple months with my little 30-something inch tube TV, but I’m trying to be good and not mindlessly replace working electronics with the latest shiny thing. But I can’t help but think that with a TV that big, one can put it directly facing out a window, and with the right video, make it look like the inside of your house is Santa’s workshop or some other seasonally-appropriate display. Even just running A Charlie Brown Christmas on Blu-ray in the window would probably get people stopping and staring….

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Peanuts books, they keep on coming

Peanuts books will continue to come in 2026, no matter what the politicians say! (Not that they’ve said anything about that, but I’m just generally mad at politicians at the moment.) May brings Be A Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, which is an abridged-for-board-book version of the storybook I reviewed back in …

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Bargains to be had

Amazon bargain prices can disappear at a moment’s notice, so I cannot guarantee these will still be there when you click on them, but: the recent hardcover rerelease of Chip Kidd’s Only What’s Necessary is 63% off and Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator (i.e., the award-winning biography …

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Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …