Snoopy of the Dead
I’ve seen Peanuts products for plenty of holidays, but this fabric I found on the Joann Fabric website is the first Day of the Dead celebratory material I’ve seen. (At least, I assume that’s what it’s for; it’s outside my cultural specialty.)
Latter Day Schulz
And, speaking of Schulz and his religious beliefs, here’s a nice article on a Mormon website regarding how he dealt with it when someone close to him chose a different religious path. It includes a couple of personal cartoons that I have not seen before.
The Peanuts-y Rabbi
Those of you who were entertained or moved by the Abraham J. Twerski self-help books that use Peanuts strips to illustrate points, such as When Do the Good Things Start? and Brothers and Sisters, It’s All Relative may be interested in this Tablet magazine article “How a Prolific Rabbi Found Inspiration in Hasidic Teaching—and …
Big Book coming
I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled at Costco, where in the past two years I’ve found the first two volumes of The Big Book of Peanuts. This rework of an Italian book format puts all of the dailies from a given decade into a single hefty volume, with the 1980s and …
Peanutize yourself
I’m not showing a lot of the promotion for The Peanuts Movie, because there is so much of it, but this is a bit of fun: an editor to create a Peanuts Movie version of yourself. This is the best I could do for me (seen here with the star …
Buying those Charlie Brown Christmas stamps
I’m already getting questions from folks about how to buy those Charlie Brown Christmas stamps. They hit the streets in October, but you should be able to preorder them at The Postal Store @ USPS.com sometime in September. However, as best as I can tell (and that is a real limitation) they only ship …
A different sort of Charlie Brown Christmas book
As anyone who has been reading this blog for more than a couple of months knows, I luuuuuvs my A Charlie Brown Christmas books. Well, now a different one has been announced – a stamp book! Well, booklet. 20 stamps, 10 different designs, coming in October, according to the announcement from the …
The Brown car
Sometimes, to get some Peanuts information, one has to reach beyond the Peanuts sources. For example, the other day while researching something else altogether, I came upon a Ford muscle car forum where a few years ago, Ford enthusiasts were discussing a Sunday strip that had just rerun. That strip, …
The Hollywood Reporter looks at 20 minutes of The Peanuts Movie
Clips included Snoopy’s encounter with the Red Baron and the start of Charlie Brown’s crush on the Little Red-Haired Girl. Source: ‘Peanuts Movie’: Blue Sky and Fox Reveal 20 Minutes of Work in Progress
Only a little Peanuts
The fine folks at GeekDad (well, mainly my pal Mordechai) have posted an interview with me, with one Peanuts question (the ol’ “what’s your favorite Peanuts story” one, but mostly about another project (yes, I do do non-Peanutsy things.)