General

An age-old problem

In the US, one typically starts kindergarten at the age of 5. Charlie Brown was attending school before we first saw Linus, who was a baby at the time. Linus was attending school before Sally was born. Sally was attending school before Rerun was born. Rerun started school before the …

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New releases

Review: Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown

I managed to get my hands on a print copy of the new graphic novel Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown, which isn’t coming from Amazon for a couple weeks yet, simply by buying it at my local comic book store instead. (Support your comic shop, folks!) This is an adaptation of …

Discounts

Discounting Charlie Brown’s politics

While Amazon is still listing Charlie Brown’s America at full cover price for preorder, the publisher is offering a discount on copies ordered from them…. if you have the secret discount code. Which I have now swiped from them, as part of my secret plans to cost them money and …

Greatest hits

Trivial invasion

What is the latest craze for unlicensed print-on-demand and Kindle Peanuts books? Let’s take a look! All eight of these trivia books came out in the past 5 weeks. And all of them are pretty clearly unlicensed. Not that they don’t take copyright seriously, mind you. Copyright is a very …

misspellings

Where did they misspell Schulz’s name this time?

Where did they misspell Schulz this time? This trademark registration, that’s where! (The name was part of the trademark because of the signature at Snoopy’s feet.)

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Peanuts graphic novel chat

Here’s one for Peanuts book fans: a week from today, the Schulz Museum is hosting a Zoom panel with the creative team of the new adapted-from-an-unproduced-TV-special graphic novel Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown. More details can be found at Calendar of Events – Charles M. Schulz Museum

New releases

The other Peanuts

So it looks as though the same bozos who have been repeatedly publishing unlicensed Kindle collections of Peanuts works are also doing the same with Diary of a Wimpy Kid books… and labeling them as being Peanuts. (I’m not going to link in this case — my “hey, look at this!” …

Die Comics
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Schulz’s Revenge

Charles Schulz gets his revenge on the comics field in the new hardcover Peanuts: DIE COMICS! Well, either that, or this is just the German translation of Peanuts Dell Archive. But do you dare assume that and risk missing out on something great?? (By the way, at the moment I …

Upcoming releases

Cover reveal: Penultimate Peanuts

This is the cover for the penultimate volume in the Peanuts Every Sunday series, featuring all the Sundays from 1991 through 1995. Yeah, I know cover reveals aren’t everyone’s favorite blog posts, but this one is pretty and spooky! If you click through on the link and use Amazon’s “Look …

Classic finds

I’m not sure if this proves the strength or weakness of communism

Some of you will remember my fascination with (and love of) the set of badly traced bootleg Peanuts from communist-era Poland.   It was while chasing after more on this that I came upon something that might be even more amazing. Something I have instant love for, from the same …