Happiness is a Dry Martini
After the post I made about the various parodies and follow-ups to Happiness is a Warm Puppy (including the two I just reprinted), I received some questions about one that I’d mentioned, but did not show a picture of. Happiness is a Dry Martini is credited to Johnny Carson – yes, the …
Happiness Is Widely Copied
WARNING: This piece does include an announcement of something I’ve just published. Back when the Peanuts gift book Happiness is a Warm Puppy was published in 1962, it was huge. Not in size, it’s just about five and a half inches square, but in impact. This little thing spent forty-five weeks …
Oh Noklahoma!
I just noticed… the surrey on this cover only has three wheels! Seriously unstable. Which is not at all helped by the fact that it’s not connected to any horses, except for the reins in Snoopy’s paw. Unless he has a period-inappropriate seatbelt, this is a disaster just waiting to …
A Friend Is… Double Feature!
Last week, I got a copy of a Peanuts book I’d not heard of before, called A Friend Is…. Yesterday, I got a copy of a Peanuts book I’d not heard of before, called A Friend Is…., and no, I did not buy the same book twice. In the 1970s, …
Snoopy and the King and I
I have a fondness for this series of sheet music books from 1983, despite the fact that I don’t play an instrument. I am amused by the collision of properties, and how it gives us the long titles like Snoopy Goes To Broadway to see The King and I… as …
Love in motion
I got some very positive reaction to the video I did of the Japanese Moving Book. I also got email from Kato, pointing me to an ad video for that book… which lead me to other ad videos for the series. (If you’re getting this via email, please click through …
Peanuts in motion
I received my copy of the Japanese (in source; in language, it’s all English!) book Peanuts in Motion: Happy-Go-Lucky (and yes, that is a link to order it from Amazon US.) This is a very, very happy-making item, with a dozen animations that occur when you turn the pages. Watch the …
More on that Japanese Dr. Snoopy book
Friend of the blog Ray gave me a reason that the Japanese edition of Dr. Snoopy’s Advice for Pet Owners I talked about a week back had the odd price of 762 yen: because once a 5% sales tax was tacked on that, it becomes a nice round no-small-change-needed 800 yen. …
Drunken Charlie Brown
He has spent his life at sea, He has sailed the wide world o’er, Now a castaway he drifts about the town. For his fate no mortal grieves; Not a living soul believes That there’s any good in drunken Charlie Brown. Hark! the minute gun’s loud boom Brings a tale …
It’s Only A Game Shy Of A Strip
As was explained to us when Derrick Bang and I were putting together the book collection of Schulz’s It’s Only A Game cartoons, the strip was designed to run in either of two formats: the full Sunday strip format as seen in the current color collection of the strip, or …