Podcast comments sought
Be sure to let me know if you would like more podcasts like the most recent one – or not. It was a lot of fun to do, but I don’t assume that that’s what everyone is looking for. (I’m still trying to figure how to deal with the podcast …
Covers uncovered
Here are the announced covers for this fall’s Fantagraphics Peanuts releases (with the caveat that Fantagraphics has been known to change their covers substantially between initial announcement and press. Peanuts Every Sunday 1976-1980 Peanuts Every Sunday 1971-1980 box set Complete Peanuts volume 10, paperback Complete Peanuts volume 9-10 box set.
Sale – Snoopy the Flying Ace Stuffed Animal and Storybook Set
The: itty bittys Snoopy the Flying Ace Stuffed Animal and Storybook Set is now for sale at half off from Hallmark’s online store.
Your Valentine’s Day Peanuts Pre-sent
So, are you behind with your Valentine’s Day shopping, still needing that little something special for that someone special, that Peanuts lover in your life? Well, you still have time to get that person… a preorder! That’s right, right now you can order A Valentine for Linus!, a Peanuts storybook (with …
Fall Fantagraphics Peanuts publications
The fall solicitations for Fantagraphics are now up, with no surprises – only just the usual things, on schedule. Not that that’s a bad thing mind you; I’m a big fan of both The Complete Peanuts and those huge color Peanuts Every Sunday collections. The Complete Peanuts: 1969-1970 (Vol. 10) Paperback Edition …
Time to plan your Peanuts holiday purchases
A new batch of book solicitations have come in, for books shipping in the autumn of this year. In the kiddie book Happy Thanksgiving, Snoopy!, plans to go to grandma’s for Thanksgiving run into a problem, so everyone hangs with Joe Cool instead. In Snoopy’s Christmas Surprise, Snoopy’s brother Spike …
The bull has pulled the football away
Ach, I was wrong in a previous forecast; Ferdinand has had more legs than I expected, and The Peanuts Movie is once again the lowest-grossing feature film that Blue Sky Studios has released.
Be Kind, Be Brave, Be You beview… er, review
On the market as of last week is Be Kind, Be Brave, Be You, a board book which is made up of three upbeat-positivity-type poems by Elizabeth Dennis Barton, with Peanuts illustrations by Scott Jerald. I actually found this one reasonably charming – I could see reading this to my kids …
Deluxe Pumpkin cover
Here we have a first look at the cover to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Deluxe Edition, the new book adaptation which will hit sincere pumpkin patches (as well as Amazon) this July (and is available for preorder now, of course.) The cover is by the ever-talented Vicki Scott, and …
Out of the cellar
The Peanuts Movie, which had the distinction of being the best-reviewed film Blue Sky Studios ever produced (judging by both the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score; Metacritic puts in in second) also had the more dubious distinction of being Blue Sky’s lowest grossing film ever, bringing in $246 million worldwide. Now, …