Here’s a find! In mid-July, 1960, Schulz did a run of strips about Lucy trying to become a political cartoonist: Well, one newspaper asked for a copy of Lucy’s cartoon – and Schulz sent it to them! Click through and take a look. I sure do.

Here’s an interesting item up for auction – a drawing board from Schulz’s studio. Now, this wasn’t Schulz’s own board, which remains properly ensconced in the Schulz Museum. No, this was the board used by Dale Hale, who worked in the studio most notably on the Peanuts comic book stories. …

If you (like me) are in California, then you may just have a chance to get Snoopy himself on your license plate. There’s a drive now for California to offer plates decorated with a happily strolling Snoopy on your plate – which would add $50 to the price, raising money …

For those of you interested in Peanuts-as-a-business, this is major: United Media’s licensing arm has been sold for $175,000,000 to the licensing company Iconix. Peanuts is most of that business.

The NJ Star-Ledger ran an article on an exhibit about Schulz and the US Golf Association, an exhibit which I’d like to see. But while they spell “Schulz” correctly in the headline, that’s the only time which they do so, using one misspelling for the body of the article and …

I hadn’t seen this sketch before. Hat tip: The Comics Reporter

So I’m watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last night (I’m a sucker for a Muppet guest appearance), and maybe halfway through, there’s an ad for Knott’s Berry Farm – if you watched the show, you may not have seen it, I assume it was a local ad for those in …

…the goodbye strip, the last of the daily Peanuts run (Sundays would continue for a few weeks) appears. In some ways, that feels like yesterday. But then, the strip has never gone away. With all of the readers of the strip, only a small portion ahve read every strip, so …

Sometimes, the news is just too weird, even for a comics fan. Now a mayor is accusing U.S. President Barack Obama of purposefully sabotaging A Charlie Brown Christmas. Good grief! In more grounded news, Peanuts video maven Scott McGuire points out that Warners has released a DVD of all the …

I am now seeing reports that ABC has added another airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for this year, airing it in a half-hour slot on the 28th in addition to the hour long slot of Peanuts goodness the night before. Their airing it instead of an episode …