Another giveaway with Peanuts
There’s a new giveaway coming to the comic shops, a fake comics section featuring samples from a variety of comic strip reprints. Included are some Peanuts strips from volume 9… and for those who liked the Unseen Peanuts giveaway, these will be strips not reprinted until The Complete Peanuts, and …
Calvin and Hobbes creator talks about Schulz And Peanuts and Schulz and Peanuts
I’m not going to be linking to all of the many reviews of Schulz and Peanuts that are out there, but when Bill Watterson writes, it’s worth having a read, particularly since he goes beyond talking about the biography to talk about Peanuts itself.
Schulz Biography website
There’s been a bare-bones website for the new Schulz biography up for years, but today they replaced it with a full-featured website, with review quotes, video of the author talking about the book, author tour dates, and such. The part that gave me an odd grin was the “advanced praise” …
New Peanuts cartoons, DVDs coming!
The Hollywood Report is reporting that the Peanuts DVD rights have moved from Paramount to Warner (link via The Comics Reporter). This will mean: New direct-to-video cartoons, plus new direct-to-digital shorts Remastered and repackaged versions of he most famous specials Thick collections of the less-famous cartoons Sounds like good news …
Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest
Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest! Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest! Really, what more is there to say, but… Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest!
More kids books
The folks at Running Press Kids seem to be doing a real push in the kids books area — In addition to the various animated adaptations and the previously-mentioned Grand Piano Book, they also have Where Is Woodstock and Snoopy At Bat coming in March. As always, you can see …
It’s Yet Again The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Now on store shelves (although not actually in stock at Amazon) is the latest book to come under the the title of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. This time, it’s a board book, aimed at kids… and with four single-picture spreads and one two-picture spread, it’s not really meant …
Commenting on my own review
Given the attention that my review of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography is now getting and the degree of Schulz expertise people ascribe to me at times, I thought I should clarify that. The book does add a richness of fact, but don’t take my review to attest to the …
Complete Peanuts, British style
As the UK readers of this blog know, the Complete Peanuts books have been restricted for sale to the US and Canada (and as they may also have noticed, it hasn’t exactly been hard to work around those restrictions). Now, however, they’ll have access to these books without even those …
Not A Charlie Brown Christmas, just Charlie Brown’s Christmas
Another upcoming book… at least, I think it’s a book. Charlie Brown’s Christmas is one of a batch of Christmas-themed “Snow Blocks” items that will be published this fall by Barnes & Noble (and probably only available through them.) I’m not quite sure what these are. The others are Rudolph, …