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A year and a half back, I posted a review of Charlie and Friends in Tip Top Comics – The Full Series Reader Collection, a print-on-demand reprint of much the same material as in Peanuts Dell Archive, only without the license for using the Peanuts name. I found, unsurprisingly, that the …

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introducing Peanuts characters

In the early days of Peanuts, it may have been a little hard to get to know the characters, because Schulz didn’t often include their names in the strip. Shermy, for example, was the very first Peanuts character to speak in the strip, the only character to talk in the …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Christmas correction

Earlier, I announced that later this year Running Press would be issuing a kit with two a kit with two A Charlie Brown Christmas jigsaw puzzles and a 32-page book adaptation of the special. It turns out I was in error. The book enclosed will actually be a sticker book with …

Animated Peanuts

Jon Hamm saying “Snoopy”

There’s an ad for the streaming service Apple TV+ in which Mad Men star Jon Hamm, complaining about the actors who have Apple TV+ shows when he doesn’t,  says “Snoopy.” Twice. Thing is, I think that the shorter version of the ad that I’ve been running into on TV uses …

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Peanuts for prisoners

Given that it seems to be book-banning season again, I thought I’d double-check that I covered when the Texas prison system had banned a Peanuts book I wrote. I had, and I even covered how they’d banned A Charlie Brown Christmas. But I started to wonder whether there were Peanuts …

Upcoming releases

Box set box

  We now have an image of the upcoming Happiness Is . . . a Four-Book Classic Box Set, referring to itself in its title. And I cannot help but to be reminded of this book, and its series of titles, which my pal Mark Evanier discusses on his blog. …

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Two deaths

Word is going around that Peter Robbins, who provided the voice of Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas and other early specials, died from suicide last week. Robbins had a history of mental struggles, which had played itself out in drug use and earning some time in prison. He was …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Charlie Brown Disappointment

So I found a listing on eBay that offered four old issues of Children’s Digest, a magazine that reprinted and excerpted stories for kids. Included in the lot was the December 1970 issue. Well, I glommed on to that one, because with the cover announcement of “Peanuts” Feature: A CHARLIE …

Upcoming releases

Collectible cards

Penguin Workship has announced the Happiness Is a Four-Book Classic Box Set, an October release which will contain their reprints of I Need All the Friends I Can Get, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket, and Love Is Walking Hand in Hand, all for …

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Peanuts things to put together

My family gave me two Peanuts gifts for the holidays, both from Japan. One is this glow-in-the-dark jigsaw puzzle, That will be assembled on some Sunday morning at a breakfast table with bagels. The other was a full set of six blind-box weather-themed Peanuts dioramas, the Snoopy Weather Terrarium set. …