Peanuts movie gets the right producer
Deadline.com is reporting that a new producer has been brought on board… and it gave me quite a pause, because, well, it’s the right guy. For those of you who don’t know the work of Paul Feig, he basically appeared in the big-time showbiz world as the creator of Freaks …
2013’s Charlie Brown Christmas take 2
Just arrived here at the magnificent AAUGH office campus, we’ve just received the second new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas for this year. Well, calling this a new edition is generous, but I’m a generous soul. What we’ve got here is a rerelease of 2000’s A Charlie Brown …
Not That Snoopy
It’s been a long while since I ran one of my Not That Charlie Brown entries, mentioning a book by or about someone named Charlie Brown. Well, here we have My Life With Snoopy, a new book about a shelter dog. The book is published by Cedar Forge Press, which …
Complete Peanuts enters the nineties
I haven’t had a chance to make my way through my copy of The Complete Peanuts volume 20: 1989-1990. Life has been full of life things and business things, such as talking to a lot of enthusiastic people at that ArtNight event. I arrived just after that filled up the …
BIG Peanuts book news
Dedicated comic book fans have recently had the chance to buy “Artists Editions”, big reprints of classic stories shot directly from the original art, so that you can see every subtlety, every bit of paste-up, all the technique that went into drawing the work. These books are relatively few (largely …
Doodles and Cosby
Now shipping is The Peanuts Gang Loves to Doodle, an activity book. And while I’m posting: if the replacement of the introduction in Peanuts Guide to Life is worrying you, just stop by your local Hallmark store. They still have an edition with the Bill Cosby intro.
Meet Nat in Pasadena tomorrow
As a reminder to those in Southern California: I’ll be appearing in at the Central Branch of the Pasadena Library tomorrow from 6 to 10 PM, as part of the big ArtNight Pasadena festivities. I’ll be glad to chat, to answer questions… and if you want to buy a copy …
New animated Peanuts shorts
Peanuts Worldwide has announced that they are working with Normaal Animation and Télévisions to produce some 90-second Peanuts shorts. Some? How about 500? This French production would be offered worldwide for the TV market in fall 2014. I presume that in the US it will be gathered in half-hour blocks. …
Guide to a revised life
Coming in April from Running Press is a newly revised edition of Peanuts Guide to Life, the original edition of which I reviewed back in 2005. I’m not sure whether the revisions will extend beyond the foreword; they’re dumping the one co-written by Bill Cosby, and getting a new one …
Celebrating the Super Bowl, bowllessly
With the Super Bowl coming up on February 3rd, the fine folks at Warner Home Video will be leading into it with a release of… no, not You’re In The Super Bowl, Charlie Brown. That would be too obvious. No, instead they’re issuing a DVD entitled either Touch Down Charlie …