Final look at The Peanuts Collection
Let’ s see if we can barrel through the rest of this book in a single post. We’re on page 52 now, and the spread is on “Spike & Company”, covering all of Snoopy’s siblings. My favorite shot on this spread is of the original of an almost-finished single-panel strip …
A book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas
You can’t be blamed if you thought we were done with new book editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas for the year. Actually, it’s my fault. I said as much, after reviewing both this year’s slightly-different mini edition in a boxed set, and the pop-up edition. But then I saw …
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 – …
The best Charlie Brown Christmas ever?!?
Today brought me a new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas – and this one is not just a new edition that’s only slightly different from a prior one. No, it’s not that it’s an all-new adaptation (it actually reuses all of the text and pieces of the art …
The thing that makes Nat happy: a new Charlie Brown Christmas edition
Mr. Postman kindly brought me my latest Amazon package today, the one with The Peanuts Holiday Box Set, a boxed set of four minibook adaptations of Peanuts specials, published by Running Press. Now, my hopes weren’t really high that I’d score an actual new edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas; …
I was wrong
Remember how, a month back, I said that the new Running Press edition of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was just as reprinting of last year’s Hallmark Special Edition adaptation? You don’t? You don’t spend your days memorizing what I say? Well, in this case that’s good, because I …
Sparky – a review
Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz is a biography aimed at the younger set. In terms of the text, it’s a reasonable attempt. It’s certainly a better and fuller biography than those books that come as part of a series of bios sold in bulk to school libraries. …
review – My Life with Charlie Brown
My Life with Charlie Brown is a collection of various prose essays that Schulz did for various publications, talking (generally) about Peanuts and his life as a cartoonist. For those studying Schulz, this is an interesting work. You’re apt to have seen much of the material before; the biggest chunk …
Complete Peanuts now shipping
The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 is shipping a bit early (no, this is not an April Fool’s joke.) Life is full, and I haven’t had a chance to complete reading my copy, but I will say that the introduction is probably my favorite of the series thus far. Robert Smigel’s rather …
notes of various sorts
My main computer is back home (yay!), and as I promised with my review of the re-release of Peanuts Philosophers, here’s a comparison of the size in the new edition and the old: Now shipping (early): My Life with Charlie Brown, where Charles Schulz’s writings about his own life are …