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 …
Little Patriot disappearing?
Little Patriot Press, the branch of conservative publisher Regenery that had been publishing historically-linked Peanuts Great American Adventure books is showing signs that cause concern. Amazon just emailed me to say that they couldn’t get their hands on thew new volume that was supposed to be out, I Declare, Charlie Brown. …
The original Linus is gone
The one-and-only D. D. Degg pointed me toward this obituary for cartoonist Linus Maurer, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 90. Mr. Maurer was, of course, the person whose name Schulz nicked when giving Lucy a baby brother (and I always thought it was a great …
If love is blind, then this is its handbook
This is the latest addition to my Peanuts book collection, and one of the more expensive items I’ve purchased. Some of you who have been reading for years or who were there at my presentation at Beaglefest a few years back might recognize what this is, but there are probably …