Cookie cutter conundrum

Amazon has let me know that the Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set of three cookie cutters and a recipe book has been pushed back until November… and given how much this product has been pushed back (it was originally supposed to be a 2013 release), I’m not sure that I trust even that. If you really need a Peanuts themed cookie cutter for the coming holiday season, you can get Snoopy’s Holiday House Cookie Baking Kit, but check the reviews – the ingredients it comes with may be insufficiently packaged.

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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! …