Let’s Speak English with Snoopy!
Continuing our look at Japanese English language education books, we have A Peanuts Book Special: Let’s Speak English With Snoopy!, which is similar to the volume I discussed earlier: an English language strip, with Japanese translation on the outside, followed by discussion of some of the idiomatic or uncommon language used. …
Snoopy, the unspoken language master
Yes, I’m finally getting back around to documenting my shipment of Japanese Peanuts books. This isn’t the first time I’ve ordered lot of such books from Japan. Last time, I realized later that I’d ordered a large portion of cookbooks. This time, most of my order ended up being language …
Charlie Brown’s Japanese Christmas
I got a package from Amazon’s Japanese division, with seven Japanese Peanuts books. I’m not going to cover them all here at once… but I’m also not going to bury the lede. I scored myself the Japanese edition of the pop-up book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. With all my …
Meeting, Flying a Kite, and Taking Off
Catching up on reviewing some of the recently arrived Peanuts books: Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown (not to be confused with the soon-to-be-reprinted strip collection of the same name) and Snoopy Takes Off! do a perfectly fine job of being what they are, which is cheap storybooks. The art is well-drawn. …
The Browns finally live up to their name
Charlie Brown. Sally Brown. Snoopy very brown. (Available here.)
Is This Tomorrow?
As both a Schulz specialist and a general comic book guy, one item that I’ve long wanted is Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, a 1947 comic book published by the same folks who put out Topix, the Catholic comic book which Schulz provided lettering and cartoons for. He also had a …
Peanuts Awesome Womenhood
Let me apologize for not keeping up with the blog; Peanuts books have been coming in, but I’ve been hectic with a variety of things, including some Peanuts-related work (we’re to the end of the process on my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures), as well as life things. One of the things …
Quilty as charged
I finally received the originally-supposed-to-come-in-January Peanuts Quilted Celebrations, a book with CD-ROM of vital files for quilting your own Peanuts materials. It has instructions for 10 different items (with an eleventh on the disk), mostly holiday items with a somewhat odd distribution (two items for St. Patty’s Day, only one …
Stinky Cecil
The folks who do Peanuts comic books generally don’t just do Peanuts comic books. For example, Paige Braddock, who not only works on the comics but is Creative Director over at the Schulz studio, has a new for-kids graphic novel Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue, in which nature’s creatures …
Bigger Weapon Brown
About eight years back, I reviewed Weapon Brown, a one-shot comic that collected and expanded Jason Yungbluth’s take on the Peanuts characters having grown up in a post-apocalyptic world. While I thought he did the work to find ways of combining those two realms, my review was summarized by “But not …