More hype from a proud writer

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I have fallen behind in blogging the coming Peanuts issues, but could not resist blogging this one, issue 15′ coming in January.. both because the cover is lovely, and because the issue will have not one but two of my stories in it. In fact, the issue’s solicitation reads:

No matter how hard Charlie Brown looks, he cannot find a single story worth writing about for his school newspaper assignment. Luckily, Lucy is on the case and she has found the perfect solution – when you can’t find a story to tell, you have to make life tell the story you want!! PRESS HERE and many more fun stories can be found in this month’s issue of PEANUTS. Jam-packed full of brand new stories, starring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Franklin!

That “Press Here” tale is one of mine, as is another high energy one featuring Franklin.

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A thing that might have been

In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth… and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported, they were floating the idea of …

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Charles’s Angel

In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named “Little Angel”… or, depending on the press release, “Little Good Guy”. The character appears in promotions for a few years. The reworks of him, which are …

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Up and down, up and down

AAUGH Blog reader D.D., who heads the fine blog The Daily Cartoonist (go check it out), put in the time to find an example of the one eight-panel Peanuts daily in vertically-stacked format, as I mentioned wanting to find in a previous post. Go take a gander at its verticalness! …