This year’s A CB Christmas showings
The good news: ABC arranged to show A Charlie Brown Christmas twice this year! The bad news: Only one of the showings was scheduled to be the unedited version, the other to the version edited to fit into a modern half-hour slot. The further bad news: One of the showings …
Charlie Brown indicates “one”, twice
I see a lot of Peanuts book covers, but it wasn’t until I was looking over my own recent blog posts that I noticed something about Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Peanuts (coming out next March) and My Life with Charlie Brown (coming out the month after …
Contest – an odd addition to the AAUGH.com library
I just added this book to the presumably-prestigious, yet under-organized, AAUGH.com reference library. “But the infamous AAUGH.com reference library is focused on Schulz and Peanuts!” I hear you cry. “What could this comic book have to do with that?” I’m actually curious how many folks know the answer – if …
The Peanuts band
To follow up yesterday’s example of the Peanuts characters interacting with a live-action human, check out this current ad for a Japanese magazine: I was out in the chilly Black Friday lines this morning, on a quest for big bargains. Know what I got? A cold. Amazon’s been running some …
Peanuts and DVD… no, not that kind of DVD
Charles Schulz would’ve turned 87 years old today. The rest of this post has nothing to do with that. I’ve always been a bit reluctant to post Internet videos here, because so many of them are copyright violations (and as a producer of copyrighted material, I take that seriously). However, …
Sparky no longer drawing funny pictures, plus gift thoughts
The young-folked-aimed biography that I mentioned a while back as being called Drawing Funny Pictures: The Life and Times of Charles M. Schulz is now going to be titled Sparky: The Life and Times of Charles M. Schulz, and the release date has been moved up to April. And as …
Correcting Celebrating Peanuts and discounting Dilbert
I’ve seen a number of sites linking to this review on PopMatters of Celebrating Peanuts, the big thick 60th anniversary strip collection, and it’s an interesting piece, but it makes some arguable arguments and gets a few things wrong… and while I’ve addressed some of that in a comment there, …
This year’s Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, with savings before and after
Just got an email from someone who could not find A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on this year’s U.S. TV schedule. It’s there on Thanksgiving day itself – 8 PM (most areas) on ABC. So after you’ve made your own thanksgiving feast in the toaster, you can share Charlie Brown’s! By …
A Charlie Brown Christmas – the music, cheap!
Amazon is running a sale; you can download the expanded edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas for $5. (Saw it for sale on vinyl the other day – new pressing – for $25.)
Another one from the class of 1950
As I’ve noted before, there was a rather powerful year in comics about the time that the Peanuts launched. Dennis the Menace and Beetle Bailey also launched within the course of a year… all strips that are still running in a large number of papers almost 60 years later. And …