A thing that no longer exists, and a thing that will not exist

As predicted, that unlicensed Charlie Brown and Snoopy coloring book that I blogged about the other day has been yanked from Amazon and other sites. However, the other works of Mrs. Beatrice Harrison remain available.

After five straight years of Hallmark putting out a new book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas in book form… well, we’re definitely in the heart of the Christmas shopping season, and there’s no sign of one for this year. My little heart is broke.

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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! …