A Charlie Brown Cupcake

The Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit, including a couple hundred cupcake wrappers and a few dozen toppers, is now shipping. It’s being distributed as a book, so it showed up on my radar, but then it was listed as simply including a recipe card, which is not a book, so I reckoned I didn’t have to buy one for my book collection. But then an Amazon review referred to it having a recipe book. So I had to search out other references… found it was described as having a six-page trifold recipe card. I know what that means… a flat thing with two folds. Judgment call: not a book. Not needed for my collection, and thus I spare myself spending sixteen bucks and change!

(Note: I am not sparing myself getting cupcakes. If I had included this in my collection, I would have wanted to keep it complete, and thus not use the various amusing cupcake papers. Decisions are easier to make when they do not actually involve cupcakes.)

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If you love Schulz, but English, not so much…

Just out in Japan is the Japanese edition of Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, the Eisner Award-winning, Schulz Museum-published heavily illustrated book co-written by curator Benjamin L. Clark and myself! And yes, it can be shipped to the States… although it …

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A quote unquote requote book on A Charlie Brown Christmas

How can you tell that the new book “A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning”: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang” is truly an innovative work? It’s the quotation marks in the title.  Not constrained by …

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Snoopy’s Book Café

Peanuts collector Lisa, who had been showing all her finds from a recent trip to Japan, started showing off one of the Re-Ment sets of little kits that combine to make a diorama. They do lovely work, but Peanuts statuary is not what I collect, and besides, these are Japanese …