personal Peanuts

Up for auction is Schulz’s correspondence with a woman he was enamored of, including a variety of gag sketches done for her, both Peanuts and non. This goes with my instinct to find every little piece of  Schulzwork; in the wake of the release of Christmas Stocking, I’ve been joking that I’m like Indiana Jones, only instead of priceles and powerful artifacts of ancient civilizations, I get Peanuts strips. (And hey, speaking of Indy, today you can get his four film adventures in a Blu-ray set for 60% off!)

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Big Fantagraphics sale and other Peanuts notes

One thing about the switch from the previous blog-by-mail system to the current one is that if there were multiple blog posts in a day, the old system would send a single digest email while the new one will send an email for each post. Not wanting to flood people’s …

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Award-winning Snoopy

I’m at a convention this week. Went to an award ceremony today, and something Peanuts got an award. Now, I’m used to seeing that happen when I go to comic convention award ceremonies… but this wasn’t a comics convention. It’s a museum store convention, for folks who run the gift …

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Another discount book

Hot on the heels of finding a discount printing of a Peanuts strip collection at Five Below, I discover another volume there. A-Maze-ing Peanuts  was  among  their five-dollar books, and it’s original version (which has a different cover) is a $12.99 list price book. I’ve no idea if this is …