New Charlie Brown Christmas book shows no mercy. Also, no Marcie.
The new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas from Running Press has a couple of special features to make it a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. It comes in a slipcase (you know, a box that the book slides in and out of), and it includes a removable poster of this image: And …
Peanuts: Friends Forever
I just received Peanuts: Friends Forever, the newest in Ballantine’s square reprint books. Like most of this series, it has the strips in color (taken from the recent newspaper reprints), with three dailies or one Sunday on each of the book’s 148 pages of strips. That means hundreds of strips, all …
Now to put my house back in order
I just had a quartet of moviemakers in my house, interviewing me and filming some of the stuff in the AAUGH.com Reference Library as part of a documentary they’re making to promote The Peanuts Movie. So I put on my act-like-an-expert hat, took off my glasses (they were causing an odd …
The Snoopy Treasures exists!
You won’t be able to get your sticky little fingers on this for a couple months yet (which means you can still go preorder it and lock in the best preorder price), but yes, my next book The Snoopy Treasures has been printed and I have a copy in my hands! …
Another kiddie bio of Schulz
One of the joys I’ve had doing this blog is picking apart some of the biographies of Schulz written for kids, generally sold as part of bulk sets of biographies meant to fill school library shelves, offering light reading for youngsters who need to do book reports. The problem with …
PEANUTS: A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES M. SCHULZ – Press Check with Managing Editor Bryce Carlson (with images, tweets) · boomstudios · Storify
The folks at Boom Studios have posted a series of images and videos from their press check for the upcoming book Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz.
Buying those Charlie Brown Christmas stamps
I’m already getting questions from folks about how to buy those Charlie Brown Christmas stamps. They hit the streets in October, but you should be able to preorder them at The Postal Store @ USPS.com sometime in September. However, as best as I can tell (and that is a real limitation) they only ship …
The Snoopy Special
Things have been a little quiet on the Kaboom! comic book front of late, but coming in November is a one-shot comic Peanuts: The Snoopy Special. “Follow Snoopy, the World Famous Sergeant-Major of the Foreign Legion, on the mission of a lifetime to save his dear brother Spike, encountering adventure at …
Unauthorized and undetailed
When the money train is rolling, everyone tries to get their piece of the pie. Or maybe some different mixed metaphor is called for, but it’s a truth. One example of that is a Kindle article that popped up recently, An Unauthorized Preview of The Peanuts Movie: The 2015 Film based on …
A different sort of Charlie Brown Christmas book
As anyone who has been reading this blog for more than a couple of months knows, I luuuuuvs my A Charlie Brown Christmas books. Well, now a different one has been announced – a stamp book! Well, booklet. 20 stamps, 10 different designs, coming in October, according to the announcement from the …