Once upon a time, I worked in Quality Assurance at a computer company, and discovered that even after leaving work, I would be finding bugs and crashing computers even in my leisure activities. I crashed a whole bank of information computers at Disney World. I discovered a bug in an …

I just got my copy of the Peanuts Artist’s Edition, which you too can order from Amazon, and it is a great big, lovely book. I made this video of me opening it and flipping through it – you can skip the first minute-and-a-half of the unboxing if you don’t …

Appearing in better comic book stores tomorrow and already winging its way to folks who preordered it from Amazon (where you can still order it at a good price is the new Peanuts graphic novel The Beagle Has Landed… and here, for your previewing pleasure, is a full ten story pages …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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. …

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.)