“Making of” cover
We’ve got a cover (pretty, isn’t it?) for the The Peanuts Movie making-of book, which drops a month before the movie. Author Jerry Schmitz has written similar books for a couple of the Shrek films, and this volume has a forward by director Steve Martino and Fox Animation president Vanessa …
Snoopy goes to Tokyo
I’ve been looking for an excuse to go to Tokyo (Ive never been there… or to anywhere beyond North America and its associated islands, for that matter). And the newly announced Snoopy Museum Tokyo just adds that much more to the desire. For that matter, there’s a chance that it …
Oh, the movie has Snoopy AND Charlie Brown. That’s good to know.
The book that was previously listed as The Peanuts Movie Book is now coming up as Snoopy & Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie Novelization.
Today’s bit of pointless Charles Schulz trivia
When Schulz played golf in the 1964 Crosby ProAm, he was the “Am” (amateur) paired with a pro named Bryant Harvard. Now Bryant, as a pro golfer, had a fairly undistinguished career, winning no major tournaments. He did, however, achieve years before this tournament one thing that I’m pretty sure …
Getting Snoopy Treasures at the comic book shop
You can, of course, preorder my November book The Snoopy Treasures from Amazon. For those of you who would rather preorder from your local comic book store, they should now be working on their orders for that month. Let them know now that you want item code AUG15 1911.
The deluge is rolling in
The The Peanuts Movie promotion has been coming on strong for a while, as they build up to sell the movie… and now we’re already starting with the movie being used to sell other things. I just ran into the ad seen here (note, this is not a paid placement), using …
The star shining at Bethlehem turns out to be Mars… Veronica Mars
They’ve announced the air date for A Charlie Brown Christmas this year – November 30th – but they’re planning to do it up in style, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the beloved show. They’re going to have a star-laden special around it, with live performances of the music, with celebrities …
The Brown car
Sometimes, to get some Peanuts information, one has to reach beyond the Peanuts sources. For example, the other day while researching something else altogether, I came upon a Ford muscle car forum where a few years ago, Ford enthusiasts were discussing a Sunday strip that had just rerun. That strip, …
Two types of Halloween
Modern book adaptations of Peanuts specials generally shorten the special, because a TV special will have more content than a standard children’s picture book will hold. (This is, I should note, the opposite situation from adult novel adaptations of feature films, where they will add scenes not in the movie, as a …
Happy Franklin Day
Today is the 47th anniversary of the first appearance of Franklin in Peanuts, and they’re making a big thing of it! You can see coverage of National Franklin Day in newspapers, it was the reason for yesterday’s material on The View. Harriet Glickman, the woman who suggested the addition of the …