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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 …

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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 …

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Speaking of Complete Peanuts covers

Long before he was designing the covers for The Complete Peanuts, the respected comics artist known simply as “Seth” took on Peanuts in another way. It has for years been either a very poorly kept secret or not a secret at all (I never know who knows what) that Seth …

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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 – …

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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 …

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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; …

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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 …

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Schulz recycles

Ach! I was doing a little research, and discovered that the Schulz prose story was really not original to The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death, as I suggested in this earlier post. Rather, it was an edited-down-for-length version of the story that Snoopy is seen writing in this …

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Schulz does prose

I am one shamefaced AAUGH Blogger. Today I received a copy of a book – not something obscurely old, but something that’s in print now, and has been in print since shortly before this blog launched over a decade ago – with an original piece of Schulz work. No, not …

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A Tale of Two Peanuts Programs

Had you gone to see a performance of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown at a theater in the late 1960s, you might have had a chance to get a souvenir program like this one: …or maybe a souvenir program like this one: “But wait,” I hear you cry, “they …