Eyes on The View
Psst: Expect a bit of Peanuts coverage on Thursday’s The View.
Peanuts movie books forever!
We’ve already seen a number of books adapting The Peanuts Movie that will be coming out this year around the time the film arrives. It turns out, that’s not the end of it! Slated for May of next year is Peanuts: The Movie Book, available in editions with and without a CD. …
That first Peanuts book
The new edition of the first Peanuts book, titled simply Peanuts, doesn’t hit regular bookstores until next month, but it’s already landed at comic book stores. The reproduction is good and sharp, they reproduced from an early printing so it still have the introduction in it that was missing from later …
Halloween in your mailbox
Now shipping are two Halloween-themed storybooks: You Got a Rock, Charlie Brown and the new book adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
The Hollywood Reporter looks at 20 minutes of The Peanuts Movie
Clips included Snoopy’s encounter with the Red Baron and the start of Charlie Brown’s crush on the Little Red-Haired Girl. Source: ‘Peanuts Movie’: Blue Sky and Fox Reveal 20 Minutes of Work in Progress
Snoopy Kindle books
I’ve fallen behind on chronicling the new US Kindle editions of older British themed Snoopy strip collections.
Only a little Peanuts
The fine folks at GeekDad (well, mainly my pal Mordechai) have posted an interview with me, with one Peanuts question (the ol’ “what’s your favorite Peanuts story” one, but mostly about another project (yes, I do do non-Peanutsy things.)
Novels by Monte Schulz
For those interested in the larger Schulz family: this December, Complete Peanuts publisher Fantagraphics will be offering Crossing Eden, collecting Schulz’s son Monte’s Jazz Age novel trilogy into a single volume.
History is delayed
The next three Peanuts storybooks in the Great American Adventure line from the conservative imprint Little Patriot Press have been pushed back. These were supposed to ship in September, now not until next May. These books are: I Declare, Charlie Brown! looks at the founding of the country (“Declare” as in “Declaration …
Franklin’s “Mom” gets the good treatment in Philly
You’ve seen me talking before about Harriet Glickman, the woman whose letter to Schulz inspired him to create Franklin in the 1960s – the letter itself is included as a pull-out item in my book The Peanuts Collection. Since then, she’s been getting ongoing attention, which hit a high point over …