Animated Peanuts

Five hours, seventeen minutes of Peanutsy goodness!

I picked up today something that I wasn’t sure would ever exist. The Peanuts 4-Movie Collection gathers all four of the classically animated Peanuts theatrical films into one handy, cheap set (just under $20 at the moment). The reason that this seemed unlikely is that the four films are owned by two …

Animated Peanuts

Inside Thanksgiving

For some reason, Amazon doesn’t have the cover for this fall’s new book edition of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, but they do have this low-resolution shot of an interior spread…. one which I think makes particularly good use of the two-page layout.

Classic finds

Panel by panel, pin by pin

While I’ve seen Peanuts strips reprinted in a variety of formats, while researching an answer for AAUGH Blog reader Elaine, I came across one that I hadn’t seen before. In 2014, the New York Yankees had a day to honor Joe Torre, former player and manager – and as a …

Comic book Peanuts

Sally Brown to the front!

Here’s the cover for volume 8 of the collections of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series. This book, which drops in November (and is preorderable now) should include four issues of the comic book… but I’m not yet sure which ones. By the way things have been running, it should include …

Animated Peanuts

Quick, I need a time machine and a ticket to Europe…

I was catching up on Jeannie Schulz’s blog, and I came on this entry, where she’s chronicling the Schulz Museum’s updated display of Peanuts books from around the world. I’ve not seen the new display yet, but in Jeannie’s photo, I see the book pictured here. There’s a shot of …

General

Passages

Yesterday’s death of Joe Garagiola has me thinking about the ways in which Peanuts is designed for longevity, and the ways in which it’s not. The Peanuts strip was made in and for its time, and while the strip did not flow through current events the way that, say, Doonesbury …

Animated Peanuts

A shiny Easter Beagle

The new book adaptation of the animated special It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is a slick production. The cover is embossed, with foil highlights and French flaps (that’s where the covers of a paperback are folded in to create inside flaps. The credits of the book are: By Charles M. …

Upcoming releases

A soft tribute

October will bring a softcover edition of Peanuts, a Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the collection of comic book stories by various comicsers either wielding the Peanuts characters or talking about the place of Peanuts in their lives. You can see my review of the hardcover edition here.

Discounts

Discount Peanuts books, including one of mine

I just checked at BookOutlet.com (<use that link and you may get a $5 gift card and I get a kickback if you order), and found that they have the Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit that includes the small book that I wrote, Classic Peanuts: Great Moments, for $7.99, which is less than half …

Upcoming releases

A Charlie Brown Christmas – in print!

It’s time for the annual happy dance, because the streak continues. Yes, that’s right, this year there’s another new print edition coming out of A Charlie Brown Christmas! I’m avoiding saying “book”, because it’s more of a fold-out item, but the A Charlie Brown Christmas Coloring Kit shipping in September has a …