sale on Blu-ray set

Animated Peanuts

As part of their Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Buy Lots Of Stuff Novedecember/Whatever promotion, Amazon currently has Peanuts 70th Anniversary Holiday Collection Limited Edition, a Blu-ray set with some new commentary tracks, for $39.99 (off of a $99.99 list.) This set comes with a Snoopy figure and, more vitally for this blog, the book Happy Holidays, Charlie Brown. What’s in that book? I do not know, because I was to cheap to buy this before this sale… and besides, this was pushed as a limited edition item, and I tend to dodge manufactured collectibles. But now I’m giving in.

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Holiday Fantagraphics Peanuts discounts

The mighty Fantagraphics is running a bit of a sale for direct purchasers, trying to grab them early Christmas bucks. The list of things that are 30% off with free shipping can be seen here, They do include the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday as well as a couple of …

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Bargains to be had

Amazon bargain prices can disappear at a moment’s notice, so I cannot guarantee these will still be there when you click on them, but: the recent hardcover rerelease of Chip Kidd’s Only What’s Necessary is 63% off and Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator (i.e., the award-winning biography …

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Big Fantagraphics sale and other Peanuts notes

One thing about the switch from the previous blog-by-mail system to the current one is that if there were multiple blog posts in a day, the old system would send a single digest email while the new one will send an email for each post. Not wanting to flood people’s …