Animated Peanuts

Upcoming Peanuts DVDs

There’s a couple more Peanuts DVDs on the way as part of the Happiness Is… Peanuts run of not-named-after-a-TV-special DVDs. First up is Snow Days, which includes the special She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown as well as some material from the Saturday morning Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show series. …

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Preordering the Peanuts comic book

Comic book stores will now have the catalog from which they can preorder issue #0 of the new Peanuts comic being published by the Kaboom line. Please realize that many comic book stores won’t order any copies unless they get requests (many stores are better described as “superhero stores” than …

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Will Charlie Brown finally make the cover of a Wendy’s book?

It looks like the round-headed kid will be locked out of the cover spot for the Wendy’s Kids’ Meal books for the eight month in a row, as the title for the new book (due in about a week) is Into the Sky with the Flying Ace. That gives him …

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New Peanuts comic book series

Peanuts is coming back to the comic book world. Boom! Studios, the same folks who published that nice graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, have announced a new ongoing Peanuts comic book series from their Kaboom imprint, featuring “all-new stories”.  It starts with an issue …

Franklin

Franklin makes the cover

Those of you who read my book The Peanuts Collection know about Harriet Glickman, the woman who suggested to Schulz that he add a bit of racial diversity to the previous all-white cast of Peanuts. I had a longer discussion with her and did a write-up for Hogan’s Alley magazine, …

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Two more books to come

Running Press, publishers of many a Peanuts book these days, have announced two more books for 2012. February’s Snoopy the Flying Ace is actually one of those boxed sets which comes with a booklet and some object… and sorry, I don’t yet know what the object is. Good Grief! Charlie …

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Happiness is a Warm Nook

They’ve started a new push putting Peanuts books on the Nook, the Barnes & Noble ebook device. Went to check it out myself, and got the bad news: they’re only for the color Nook (and the iPad Nook software), because the books have interactive elements that wouldn’t work on the …

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The cover for this year’s other Charlie Brown Christmas edition

Here’s the preliminary cover for the upcoming new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Almost certainly, this will use the same adaptation as last year’s Hallmark edition; it even has the same sound buttons. However, not only is the cover different from the Hallmark edition, it looks like it’s …

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The score – Snoopy 6 Linus 1 Charlie Brown zero

Here’s the cover for the latest in the series of Wendy’s Kids’ Meal books; the books are now or will soon be available at your local Wendy’s hamburger outlet. I expect I’ll have one to review later in the week. Please note that as of this cover, even four of …

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The next Wendy’s Kids Meal book

Yes, yes, I do manage to crank three posts out of each of these Wendy’s Kids Meal books. We call that efficient use of information. I also manage to make three meals out of each rotisserie chicken. Anyway, August 1st is the official release date for The World Famous Beagle …