Latest Marvel Cinematic Universe Peanuts reference

Snoopy's doghouse with the image of Captain America's shield.
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For those of you keeping score (and you know who you are… at least I hope you do, because I sure don’t): In the 5th episode of Hawkeye, which was released today, the recording of the song “Christmastime is Here” from the start of A Charlie Brown Christmas is heard.

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Correct the record

While searching for something else, I stumbled across this announcement of the Kaye Ballard Peanuts album in the Chicago Sunday Times Magazine for January 15, 1961. Now, let’s take a zoom in on that drawing… and its caption. Magazine sections are generally created with a long lead time, allowing them to …

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Spot the Dog

I publish things. I also research things. And really, the two efforts are often one and the same: I research stuff and find that it’s worth publishing; I publish stuff and in the process I’m doing research. That all just happened for me with a syndicated comics panel called “Spot” …

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Peanuts and the Wolf

A couple months ago, I posted about some research I’d done into the use of putting the title of a comic strip right in the strip on dailies. Believe it or not, that bit of digging in has already led to me publishing a book…. a reprint of a 1945 …