Sewing up animation adaptations
In recent years , I’ve laid hands on a few cloth Peanuts books – or at least the panels of fabric offered to make them. Well, today I laid hands on two more – and they actually fit two categories for me. Not only are these two cloth books – …
Peanuts animator passes
Jerry Beck reports on the passage of Bill Littlejohn, who worked as an animator on a number of Peanuts specials dating all the way back to A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as quite a respectable list of other projects. It’s been 45 years since that first Peanuts special. As …
Peanuts specials stay on ABC
It’s a little early for me to get my usual requests to note the date, time, and channel of the upcoming airings of the key “classic” specials (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and A Charlie Brown Christmas), but I can get one part of the …
He’s Your Dog and Christmas Tales coming to DVD
Despite the talk about the upcoming Happiness is a Blanket, Charlie Brown, that’s not the next DVD up. Here are a couple that will be shipping in the next couple months. He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown offers up one of the early specials… one that’s already on DVD on the …
The Happiness is a Blanket preview at Comic-Con
As mentioned, I had to miss the Peanuts 60th anniversary panel today at Comic-Con. I missed what I hear was a good Q&A session. However, the panel’s Andy Beall, a cool animation dude, took pity n your poor AAUGH Blogger and gave me a run through the parts of the …
AAUGH!
So the San Diego Comic-Con 2010 is coming up in just under 2 weeks, and if you look at the schedule of talks, you will find this: Friday, 2:00-3:00 Peanuts Turns 60— On October 2, 1950 the Peanuts comic strip launched in seven American newspapers. Little did anyone know the …
Happiness Is a Blanket
Coming in February from Running Press Kids is Happiness Is a Blanket, Charlie Brown, which would appear to be an adaptation of a new Peanuts special that the LA Flash animation studio Wildbrain is bringing to life. Is this a direct-to-video or direct-to-iTunes release, or will it see release to …
Peanuts Summer Specials
When cruising Netflix’s streamable content the other night in the search for something for my daughter to watch, I stumbled across a packaging of Peanuts videos that I had not noticed before: Peanuts Summertime Specials. It strings together It’s Spring Training, Charlie Brown, the all-too-overlooked Charlie Brown’s All-Stars, and It Was …
Guaraldi’s Peanut Portraits
Now available for preorder is Peanuts Portraits, a new album of old tracks, including some previously-unreleased takes. Some of it is pure Guaraldi, other parts are George Winston covering Guaraldi’s characters tunes. Peanuts FAQ maintainer Derrick Bang provides what they still apparently call “liner notes”, despite the facts that CDs …
The rest of the 1970s specials
Shipping in June is Peanuts 1970’s Collection volume 2, a DVD set which includes: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown So that’s all the …