Peanuts DVD bargains

The new special Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown hits stores tomorrow, and Amazon is already shipping some copies (knowing they’ll take more than a day to arrive). But at the moment, they’re also offering some tempting prices on other Peanuts animated disks:

Please note that the ones later on the list appear to be the older, Paramount editions of these releases rather than the newer Warner Brothers ones, but the first three are the current releases — including the first two, both of which have me appearing in the special features (which may explain why the price has been lowered…)

Please note that the Blu ray/DVD/digital copy combo pack of Warm Blanket is orderable through Amazon, but not sold directly by them. Apparently, this is a package intended for the Canadian market – but as Canada and the US are part of the same video encoding “region”, those disks should work just fine on your players. There is a just-the-blu-ray edition available through Walmart.com.

Animated Peanuts
RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …

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If you love Schulz, but English, not so much…

Just out in Japan is the Japanese edition of Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, the Eisner Award-winning, Schulz Museum-published heavily illustrated book co-written by curator Benjamin L. Clark and myself! And yes, it can be shipped to the States… although it …