Oooh, DVD deal

You know those DVDs they’ve been releasing with one Peanuts TV special mixed with one episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show? And you know those cheap DVD sets where you can get four related films in a single DVD case for about $10-$15? Well, you can probably see what’s coming…

A four-in-one Peanuts release! Yup, coming in June is 4 Kid Favorites: Happiness Is… Peanuts, which contains the previous released disks Snoopy’s Adventures, Go Snoopy Go!, Team Snoopy, and Snow Days, which means it has Snoopy’s Getting Married, Charlie Brown; It’s Spring Training, Charlie Brown; Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown; and She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown, plus four episodes of the The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. All of that, and at the moment the preorder price is a mere $10.49.

(In my experience, these sets come on two disks, using both sides of each disk.)

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …