Obama Pays Tribute to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the ‘Peanuts’ Gang
The New York Times has this article announcing that Obama has written the intro for Complete Peanuts volume 25.This has me doing the Happy AAUGH Blogger dance for several reasons: I scooped the New York Times! I announced Obama’s introduction weeks ago… and to the best of my knowledge, I was …
Every Sunday cover
Here’s the solicited cover for this fall’s volume in the Peanuts Every Sunday series, covering the second half of the 1960s. However, Fantagraphics has a tendency to change their covers after solicitation… and they might do that to the boxed set pictured below as well.
Beaglefest – not just an anagram for “Feet Bagels”
The Peanuts Collectors Club has announced that their big gathering, Beaglefest, will take place on July 21 – 24 in Anaheim California, the home to Knott’s Berry Farm and the original Camp Snoopy. The group has various exciting things planned, and to balance that a bit, they’ve also got me coming …
more Peanutsy fall books
Added to the books coming up this fall are: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 50th Anniversary Edition, a storybook with stickers and a trick-or-treat bag (August) Lucy Knows Best, a storybook crafted by Kama Einhorn and Robert Pope, available in paperback and hardcover (August) Peanuts Volume 8, with another …
Swamp Peanuts
Graphic novelist Doug TenNapel posted this shot of a 1966 Pogo original on Facebook the other day: It looks to be the room of Pogo character Rackety Coon Chile, an energetic youngster. And what does it have… besides lots of wonderful detail and the exquisite line work that makes Walt …
R.I.P. Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco, the best-selling author of such books as The Name of the Rose, respected semiotics specialist, and general intellectual has died. What some of you may recall is that at times over the decades he focused his intellectual light on Peanuts, such as in this essay from 1963. or in writing the …
Peanuts 31
First, a quick personal note – a few people took my comments about my dealing with a lot of life lately to assume (understandably) that something was wrong. No, it’s mostly good stuff, some frustrating stuff, nothing tragic. It’s just that February is proving to be overwhelmingly full. I appreciate …
End-of-the-year books
Sorry I’ve been letting the rest of life get in the way of my blogging lately. I’ve had much of general reality to handle… with a thing or two for the Peanuts fans that I’ll tell you about eventually. Anyway, the fall solicitations have been showing up, with some upcoming Peanuts …
You can (and should!) order Complete Peanuts 26
I’ve got some catching up to do as this fall’s book solicitations hit the system. A number of things need to be logged’n’blogged, and life is pretty full at the moment, but I wanted to get right to pointing out that you can now preorder The Complete Peanuts volume 26: Comics …
Happy Valentine’s Day, Charlie Brown
The whirlybeagle on the cover of the new level-two kids book Happy Valentine’s Day, Charlie Brown is misleading – there is no whirlybeagle on the inside. Instead, it’s a tale of Valentine’s Day, of Charlie Brown making a card for the Little Red Haired Girl and of others making cards or …