You’re a Good DVD, Charlie Brown
The official announcement came out today: the animated version of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is coming to DVD for the first time in January. I’ve known for a while that this was coming, because they interviewed me for the new featurette on the making of this special. Don’t …
a bird/dog box
February brings Snoopy and Woodstock: Best Friends, which is a 32 page booklet packaged with a figures of the two characters.
More Schulz bios
It seemed like the flow of biographies of Schulz got interrupted by the release of the Michaelis biography – what had been a flow of little bios disappeared for a while, even though most of those bios were for the kids and thus not in conflict with that big yellow …
Peanuts Philosophers
For a while, we’ve had something called Peanuts Philosophers listed as coming next March. Well, that’s still the case, but now I know what it is – it’s a reprint of a cute little set of books (Snoopy’s Philosophy, The Wisdom of Charlie Brown, The World According to Lucy, and …
GREAT PUMPKIN 2010: Plan your future accordingly
Coming in August 2010 is It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The early signs suggest that this will be along the lines of last year’s new adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
More Peanuts DVDs
Coming in October is The Peanuts 1970’s Collection Volume 1, which continues the sequential release of the Peanuts specials (as well as the inappropriate use of an apostrophe in the title.) This set has two disks with half a dozen specials, including two that have never been on DVD before …
Peanuts go Blu-Ray
I’m back from Comic-Con, and what did I get there? Strange foreign germs, apparently. Lots of cough medicine and bed rest and all the TV shows that are stored up on my pseudoTivo, that’s what’s called for. Anyone who went there for the Peanuts stuff may have been a mite …
Does it teach piloting a doghouse?
Added to next year’s books is Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Peanuts. 128 pages, hardcover, no further details at this time. As always, you can see a list of upcoming books here.
Schulz’s son’s new novel
Some of you may recall that Sparky’s son Monte is a novelist, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen a new novel from him… 18 years now, in fact. I knew something’s been in the works, but it’s finally seeing release — this October brings This Side of Jordan, …
More on that 60th Anniversary book
We’ve got some more details on the Peanuts 60th anniversary book I’ve been posting about lately: That’s what the publisher is calling it at the moment – The Peanuts 60th Anniverary Book. Nothing about “celebrating”, a term which only shows up on the Amazon listing. The size is 9.5″ x …