The Peanuts movie cast
Here’s the Today Show piece they aired yesterday introducing the new Peanuts voice cast, after some light chat with Craig Schulz and producer Paul Feig. Yes, it is appropriately a cast of kids again. (Not seen of course is the one adult, the late Bill Melendez, whose voice work is being reused …
Free CB Thanksgiving App
Today only, Amazon is offering the A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving app for Android for free!
Peanuts Black Thursday through Sunday savings
The Boom! Studios store is having this big sale: So here’s the Peanuts search results there. I might be using this to get some of the variant covers I’m missing.
Ten bucks off of a book today!
Today-only HOLIDAY30 coupon code for Amazon means 30% off of any one book, maximum $10 savings. Max out that savings with this beautiful Peanuts Every Sunday volume… or click on through and order whatever you want.
Holiday thoughts 2014
I do roughly this same message every year, so let me start with the too-long-didn’t-read version, and then we can get into the subsections: Gifts are good, but they’re rarely important, nor the best way to show that you care. Gifts of charitable donations are a very good form of …
The force behind Franklin speaks!
Mashable has up an article on the creation of Franklin, including a video of a Schulz Museum interview with the woman whose urging convinced Schulz it was time to integrate the strip.
Cheap bio for the Nook
At the moment, the Nook ebook edition of Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman is on sale for a mere buck-ninety-nine. This was an okay one, aimed at the younger set but not one of those cheaply-done part-of-a-set ones done for the youngest readers.
Snoopy Dance by the book
Coming in July is Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance, a 160 page hardcover of quotes about dancing and life, with Snoopy cartoons. Available for preorder, of course!
Something I’m not buying that plays on a device I don’t own
Until a few minutes ago, I was unaware of this recording. Apparently, in response to the Royal Guardsmen’s hit “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”, a UK act called The Delicatessen released what looks to be their only single, a response song called “The Red Baron’s Revenge”. I do not know …
it’s Your Year, Charlie Brown!
As I’ve discussed before, it’s tough to make a good Peanuts prose book, because the humor of the strip is so grounded in the visuals and the rhythm they create. And the humor is so internal. Well, I’ve found a book that does the best job yet of making it …