Other inside info

While I was being corrected on the status of It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown (and boy, did I not just end up with egg on my face there, I ended up with AAUGH on my face!), my inside source did let me in on some better information, and that’s about the upcoming book The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation, which I earlier referred to as “nicely big” at 160 pages. Apparently, in putting this book together, they found more good stuff than they had expected… so it’s being pumped up to 196 pages. The images are being edited by Andy Beall, who was the animation director for Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, and it will have an introduction by the producer of all the classic TV specials, Lee Mendelson. I don’t know whether the page count change will change the price of the book, but I’m going to preorder mine now to lock in the price.

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Animated Peanuts
A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report

The animated specialĀ Peanuts: A Summer Musical is coming out on Friday, as discussed before. And yet here I am on Thursday, covering it. What sort of secret inside access did I have that let’s me do this? Easy, I live on the West Coast. It’s already Friday on the East …

Upcoming releases
The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …

Upcoming releases
Charlie Brown’s America goes soft

Coming in December is a paperback edition of Blake Scott Bell’sĀ Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. I reviewed the hardcover when it came out in 2021, and that positive recommendation still stands. Share the news!