Do not impregnate Peanuts people
I’ve been looking at some of the past lawsuits over Peanuts. The various owners of Peanuts over the years have been aggressive — generally appropriately so — about protecting their rights to the characters and going after unlicensed use of them. I am not sure if they’re just more aggressive …
Free comics and freaky musicals
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund‘s Jeff Trexler caught sight of this headline appearing to announce a very unlikely musical. And since I’m sending something out, let me note that Free Comic Book Day is coming up this Saturday. (Also, so is Comic Giveaway Day. This is the result of …
Those unlicensed works
The world of Print On Demand has continued to generate unlicensed and undesired Peanuts books. If you were carefully searching this past Christmas, you might have found Charlie Brown and the CHRISTMAS COMET That Changed Its Mind (capitalization theirs), a full-color tale. Inside its 32 pages, you get low word-count storytelling …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Last day to get that downloadable Peanuts deal
As I type this, there’s a bit under 24 hours left to go in that Humble Bundle deal where you can download the complete run of Peanuts for $25. If you’ve been taking time to think about it… well, it’s time to stop thinking! (Offer good in the US. Not …
If you wonder why Apple TV is making a new Peanuts feature film
The idea of Apple TV making a new feature-length Peanuts film caught some people off-guard. Sure, they make Peanuts “specials”, but the last time a feature film was made, it became the lowest grossing film that that studio had released, despite also being the best reviewed. Today, I looked at …
CORRECTED LINK — All of Peanuts, $25
If you’re good with digital books, Fantagraphics and Humble Bundle have a frankly amazing deal. You can get 43 Peanuts books in download form for $25. What does this mean? You get every Peanuts newspaper strip, via The Complete Peanuts, every Peanuts Sunday strip in color via Peanuts Every Sunday, …
Peanuts for penguins
In late October 1957, newspaper reporter Rolla Crick meant to be visiting the US Navy’s south pole station (Amundsen-Scott) only briefly, but the engine on the US Navy Neptune that had brought him and others there had broken down and they were all stuck to stay there for weeks. That’s …