Own a Snoopy from space

 

The Silver Snoopy

People regularly ask me to help promote their auctions of their Peanuts memorabilia, and I demur. I really don’t want to turn this blog into a bunch of adds for other people’s stuff. But in this case, I’m making an exception… because of what the item is.

You may know (particularly if you read my book, The Peanuts Collection) about how Snoopy is used as a symbol by NASA. You may even have heard about the Silver Snoopy pin, the award given to people who have given excellent support NASA’s space efforts. And what makes these pins particularly special is that each of them has been carried on a NASA mission. Now that’s pretty cool.

The auction I’m listing is forĀ a Silver Snoopy that went to the moon.

How often do you get a chance like that?

(Go ahead, bid if you want. You won’t be bidding against me; it starts at a couple thou, and that’s well outside my range.)

Share the news!
General
Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you. Share the news!

General
On the four panel status

For more than the first three decades of Peanuts, the daily strip was always four panels… well, no, that’s not quite 100% true, as I think of the August 31, 1954 daily strip of Patty jumping rope, but even that had panel breaks at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks …

General
The 75th Anniversary

I sat down to write a nice, long something on the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, because it’s a 75th anniversary, because this is the official marking of Peanuts being a cultural presence after the end of the strip for half as long as the strip was being made, and because …