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 …
The Doctor Is In, The Pictures Are Not
Following the example of The Gospel According to Peanuts, there have been a number of essay books over the years that have used Peanuts strips as a launching point for certain topics, most often religious. In 1981, Warner Press (the publishing arm of The Church Of God, which Schulz was very involved …
Snoopy horses around
I’ve run into a few books lately about other dogs named Snoopy… which is hardly anything new, as there were books about dogs named Snoopy before there was Peanuts. But this is a first, I think. It’s by Snoopy. And he’s not a dog… (Note that the story is “as told …
Snoopy’s darker days
Found at Amazon Japan, and actually available to be shipped from Japan via Amazon US: PEANUTS meets SPECIAL PRODUCT DESIGN 2. I assume that’s supposed to be a tan, and not African American Surfing Snoopy… but you never know. The volume comes with a free shopping bag bearing this image.
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. …
Good lookin’ Italian books
I’m grooving on these Italian book covers, which use a different text sensibility than one typically sees on Peanuts books. (Click on the book to go to ordering page.)
The Complete Peanuts 1991-1992
Shipping in a few weeks is the latest volume in The Complete Peanuts, covering the years 1991-1992. I’ve already got a copy (provided by the publisher, Fantagraphics, with whom I have business dealings on other books), and here are my thoughts on reading through it: The introduction by cartoonist Tom …
Bits of Peanuts in anthologies
This year’s Kaboom! Summer Blast! comic book, given away at comic book shops yesterday, includes the five-page story How To Be A World-Famous Author by Vicki Scott and Paige Braddock, reprinted from issue 14 of volume 2 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book, as well as a one Sunday strip reprint. …
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 …