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.)
You Can Be Anything Cheap
The Peanuts kiddie hardcover You Can Be Anything is now available remaindered for 60% off the cover price. Now with remainders, I always warn that they may be marked with a remainder mark… but more and more, I’m finding that the copies from both Amazon and B&N aren’t marked, or …
Why Pay More, Charlie Brown, Why?
The Barnes & Noble discount pile has added in copies of Why, Charlie Brown, Why?, the Schulz-illustrated book adaptation of the touching special about a young girl coping with a serious illness. These $15.95 hardbacks are on sale for $5.38 apiece. They may have remainder marks. And for those who …
an apology
I have come to understand that in my zeal for all things Peanuts-booky, I may have, in the past year or so, spent too much time focused on book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas, to the detriment of other things which I may have covered. Here, I hope to …
It’s a Discount Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
I was checking out my remainder book source, BookCloseouts, and noticed that they had some good deals on books for the impending Halloweeniday: The Great Pumpkin Strikes Again, an out-of-print kids storybook for $1.99, half off the cover price. Baby Snoopy’s Pumpkin out-of-print board book for $2.99, half off the …
On why you can’t find a dog for Christmas, and free stuff I got
So I’m at a Big Buy store yesterday, and notice that they don’t have the new edition of I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown on their new release rack. So out of curiosity, I head over to their children’s section to see if it’s there, and I find …
Cheap Willie, even Cheaper Joe
I’m going to send folks over to BN.com for this one, even though (sniff) I don’t get a cent in referal fees from them. But they’ve got the boxed set of Willie & Joe: The World War II Years by Schulz’s pal/idol Bill Mauldin, for less than 1/3 of its …
Cheap Willie & Discount Joe
Just noticed that the $65 two-book boxed hardcover set of Willie & Joe cartoons by Snoopy’s drinking buddy Bill Mauldin is available remaindered for about $20. (And if you’re a classic cartoon fan looking to run up the $25 for free shipping, there’s a remaindered bio of Charles Addams that …