A leather-bound pumpkin

For those of you who like throwing the big bucks at the fancy editions of Peanuts books, Easton Press now has turned their leather-binding, gold-stamping equipment on It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic. It’ll run you about $80. Like all Easton Press editions, it’s not available through AAUGH.com; you gotta order it from Easton themselves. See all their in-print Peanuts books here.

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Big Fantagraphics sale and other Peanuts notes

One thing about the switch from the previous blog-by-mail system to the current one is that if there were multiple blog posts in a day, the old system would send a single digest email while the new one will send an email for each post. Not wanting to flood people’s …

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On Peanuts and Gender

This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the sold-out Transpose Theatricals production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown in North Hollywood, California. The production featuring an all-trans and non-binary cast was a fun one, the cast brought great talent and a enthusiasm and really filled out their characters …

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The real Linus’s real cartooning

Like many Peanuts fans, I knew that the character of Linus was named after Linus Maurer, who worked at Art Instruction alongside Schulz. Like seemingly fewer fans, I knew that Maurer himself had been a syndicated cartoonist… but for some reason I never saw any of his strip before today. …