Free Comic Book Day: no Peanuts, but a crackerjack event nonetheless
Coming up this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. Now, usually when I wax rhapsodic about this annual event, I’ve had some free Peanuts-inclusive comic book to steer you toward at your local comic shop, but not this year. With the KaBoom Peanuts series about to draw to a close, they’re …
Schulz’s Dear President Johnson back in print!
This is the sort of thing where I’ve had news I wanted to share, but couldn’t (or at least shouldn’t) until everything was ready – but now it is! Back in 1964, Charles Schulz illustrated a book of kids’ letters to the then-new president, Lyndon Johnson. The letters had been …
Peanuts Boomerang
An alert reader let me know that the cable TV network Boomerang is now advertising the date that they will start showing the new Peanuts shorts that were made in France. It’ll be May 9. These shorts are adaptations right from the strip, and there will be a lot of …
Complete Peanuts 25
So I have, in my hot’n’handsome li’l hands, a copy of The Complete Peanuts volume 25, collecting the final year-and-a-little of the newspaper strip, which is a good thing to have but not exactly hard to have come by before. But this is filled out with two other items of note: a …
More Plastino Peanuts
It’s known that cartoonist Al Plastino was once hired to produce some Peanuts strips to be kept on file, even if there was some disagreement between Plastino’s recollection and other reasoning as to when this took place. Despite rumors that these strips were destroyed, a few have seen print in …
Peanuts and Philosophy
Coming in November is Peanuts and Philosophy, a book of twenty essays exploring philosophical matters in or through Peanuts. I’d be a bit more excited if at this point this wasn’t an industry, doing “and Philosophy” books on any pop culture phenomenon. (Just as examples, the two editors of this have …
Kaboom Peanuts: up for an award and down for the count
A couple big pieces of news regarding the Peanuts projects that have been part of the Kaboom! line. Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, their collection of Peanuts stories, tributes, and parodies, is nominated for an Eisner Award (the “Oscar of comics”) for best anthology. (It’s not the only …
an award-winning Peanuts book
Peanuts books have won a number of awards over the years; I was there when a Complete Peanuts volume got comicdom’s coveted Eisner Award. Well, they racked up another win this week at the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Ben Franklin Awards. The Gold Award in the category of Coffee Table Books …
The AAUGH Blog covers a cover with AAUGH
Coming in October is another book in the AMP! Comics For Kids line, Charlie Brown: Here We Go Again. This is another one of those feature-laden full color strip collections, with a poster.
Not the anniversary of Woodstock
Various sources will tell you that the April 4, 1967 strip was the first appearance of Woodstock in Peanuts. I’m here to tell you, that ain’t accurate. Yes, there was a bird who came to visit Snoopy on that date, unnamed at the time (as was every Woodstock appearance until …