One for all you Al Roker completists

The intro writer for the next Complete Peanuts volume has been announced – it’s Al Roker of the Today show.

Meanwhile, today’s big Amazon deal is a fairly cheap price on a 47 inch TV. I’m going to feel guilty inviting people to my Super Bowl party in a couple months with my little 30-something inch tube TV, but I’m trying to be good and not mindlessly replace working electronics with the latest shiny thing. But I can’t help but think that with a TV that big, one can put it directly facing out a window, and with the right video, make it look like the inside of your house is Santa’s workshop or some other seasonally-appropriate display. Even just running A Charlie Brown Christmas on Blu-ray in the window would probably get people stopping and staring….

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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 …