Charlie Brown is Golden
You’re Golden, Charlie Brown is a recently released strip collection focused on the round-headed kid. It’s 150 pages of strips all from the mid-1960s, with three dailies (colorized) or one Sunday on each page (and, as with the previous volumes in this Ballantine Books format, with a curiously large hunk of …
The Peanuts booth at Comic Con
We’ll see how well my remote blogging tool does:
Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance
The new book Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance is a little hardback gift book that includes a few Peanuts strips in it, but is mainly page after page of inspirational quotes (many with dancing mentioned as a source of joy), each with the same small picture of Snoopy tipping …
You will believe a beagle can fly
This drone is making me very happy.
Nat in San Diego – change of plans
I’m still only going to be at the San Diego Comic-Con for one day, but due to some family matters (don’t worry, nothing of concern), that day will be FRIDAY, not Thursday as previously announced. I’ll be wearing the unique shirt below, so if you see someone wearing it, stop …
Many different Charlies Brown
Finally, we have a cover for Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the book where various artists get to bring their own style to Peanuts. We also have a fuller artist list: Mike Allred, Art Baltazar, Paige Braddock, Megan Brennan, Frank Cammuso, Colleen Coover, Evan Dorkin, Chynna Flores, Julie Fujii, Shaenon …
C’mon baby, write my Peanuts
As a collector, I’ve seen a lot of examples of people parodying Peanuts by replacing the dialogue with something a bit more x-rated. It has been done well at times, but that’s the exception. But there was at least one interesting example that I didn’t know about… interesting for the most …
Peanuts programming at San Diego Comic-Con 2015
There is at least some Peanuts-related programming during each of the four full days of next week’s Comic-Con International: San Diego. Here are descriptions copy’n’pasted from the official listings. Peanuts 65th Anniversary Panel In 2015, Charles M. Schulz’s iconic Peanuts gang celebrates not only their 65th anniversary but also two …
Have you seen this book?
Someone let me know that they had found a copy of The Zipper on My Bible is Stuck at a Barnes & Noble… which is very odd. Because I published that book, and we never sold any copies to B&N, nor any other book source. It was available to/through some of …
Peanuts Movie OGN is DOA
There was a book in the catalogs as Peanuts Movie OGN, indicating that a graphic novel would be hitting in August in the style of the movie. Well, the ISBN (an identification number) that was being used for that is now being used for September’s Where Beagles Dare graphic novel – which …