The Chuclopedia
For folks with Kindles or Kindle software, here’s an ebook that is currently free (not sure if that’s a permanent thing): Twelve Guys Named Charles: Valuable lessons and inspiration from a dozen of history’s “Chucks”. This is a set of brief biographies around people who happen to have the same …
The original Charlie Brown of stage
Today’s Peanuts-related reading was To M*A*S*H and Back, the 2009 autobiography of actor Gary Burghoff. While best known for portraying Radar O’Reilly in the film M*A*S*H and the TV show M*A*S*H and the TV show AfterM*A*S*H and the never-picked-up-for-a-series TV pilot W*A*L*T*E*R, the part of the book that I wanted …
Schulz Bridge cartoons collected
Just out, and available for immediate order, is Bridge Mix, a collection of the bridge-related cartoons from “It’s Only a Game”, Schulz’s single-panel feature from the late 1950s. Who’s the publisher? About Comics. That’s me. To make it clear: if you have the It’s Only a Game collection that I …
In the future, all printings will be first printings
As you may know, there have indeed been book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas, starting with the Dale Hale drawn hardcover that was published by the World Press in 1965, when the special first aired. The first printing of that bears the phrase First Printing 1965 on the copyright …
Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 review
First off, I have to admit that the mid-1980s Peanuts is not, to me, Peanuts at its best. It’s not a strip of fresh discovery at this point (as it not only was before but also would be again); what new energy is being put into there is focused on …
Willie and Joe, after the war
If, like Schulz and Snoopy, you’re a big fan of Bill Mauldin – perhaps if you’re one of the folks who ordered Willie & Joe: The WWII Years when we had the hardcover up at a discount here – then you may want to grab up this deal: Willie & …
Maybe it’s the AAUGH Bloglefest
If you were going to the Peanuts Collectors Club annual Beaglefest this year (and you should; I am told people have quite a good time at them) and if you were going to see me give a talk there (which I hope you would, if you were there, and if …
from the vaguely-Peanuts-related column
Coming in October is Quilt It with Love: The Project Linus Story: 20+ Quilt Patterns & Stories to Warm Your Heart, a paperback book from the President and Vice President of the Peanuts-inspired charity that provides security blankets. And even if you preorder it now for a healthy discount, part …
My name in French is exactly the same
I just received a copy of Snoopy : Les trésors du chien le plus célèbre du monde, sent to me from the British branch of Amazon. This is the French translation of my book The Peanuts Collection; it always amused me to have books which I’ve written, but cannot read. …
Peanuts issue 3
The third issue of Kaboom’s Peanuts comic book hits comic shops on Wednesday, but I managed to grab up an early copy at Wondercon, the normally-in-the-San-Francisco-area comic book convention that was in Anaheim this past weekend. (I managed to pass up buying one of the rare #3 covers for $10, …