Quilty Pleasures, Peanuts style

QuiltedComing in January is Peanuts Quilted Celebration, another one for all you crafty folk out there. It has applique designs! A CD-ROM! A foreword by Jeannie Schulz!  All brought to you by the American Quilter’s Society! Am I gonna preorder a copy of this one? Of course I am! Am I going to make a quilt? Not on your life! I have no competency at fabric-based crafts! Any quilt that I made would probably go on a murderous rampage, suffocating anyone that gets in its path in badly-made-quilt discomfort! Sure, there’s a chance that might not happen, but is it really worth taking the risk? No!

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

I have noted before that there seems to be a fair bit of lasting affection out there for The Peanuts Book of Pumpkin Carols, a booklet of Halloween-related lyrics for famed tunes that Hallmark put out in the 1960s and redesigned and reissued a few times. It’s clear that Chronicle Books …

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Charles Schulz – The Comic Book

It wasn’t that long ago that we had no comics-format biographies of Charles M. Schulz. Now we have the manga biography and the series-of-strips biography (ooh, steeply discounted at the moment)… and coming December, we have just a basic comic book biography. Tribute: Charles M. Schulz is from Tidal Wave, …

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Not Peanuts, but not utterly not Peanuts

I saw a comics writer talking about a new project where he was taking some inspiration from Peanuts – as well as some from other sources — to do a story about a comic strip creator who is bringing his strip to an end, in a way with deep personal …