Peanuts 65th anniversary book #1

For those of you certain that every possible Peanuts book had already come out, and that no new books were possible for next year, you can relax. The world is not about to end…. because it has already been announced that 65 Years of Snoopy, a 196 page paperback, will be heading to your hands January 15th, 2015..

(Really, I don’t think you have anything to worry about; my money says that 2015 will set a record for the number of Peanuts books released.)

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

Shortly after I posted the video about the comic strip”The Wolf” which suggested ways in which it set the path for “Peanuts”, my pal and co-writer, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, pointed out something I had missed — while “Willie” had offered strips run in a two-tier format before …

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Unquote alone

The warning signs about the new book Rediscovering the True Meaning of Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas”: Celebrating Christmas with a Charlie Brown Touch starts with the title, and its curious use of a single double-quotation mark. That’s part of the name every time it’s listed, whether on the …

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Candidate Snoopy

The promotion of “Snoopy for President” dates back to at least 1961 (possibly earlier, I don’t have great reference on it.) The idea is not limited to US presidential election years, but it does tend to swell then. There was not only merch but newspaper articles on it in 1968. …