Award-winning after all these years
Peanuts fared well at last night’s Harvey Awards, Peanuts: A Tribute To Charles M. Schulz (that’s the collection of various respectable cartoonists doing Peanuts stories or stories about Schulz), took three awards: Best Single Issue Or Story Special Award for Presentation Best Anthology
Why Linus is our generation’s Jeb Bush
When they took the Linus-becomes-a-student-council-candidate storyline from the strips and turned it into a TV special, they gave it the title You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, even though Charlie Brown was not a candidate. Linus didn’t get the attention he may have expected or deserved. Now they’ve gone and done a …
Ferret versus Jeep
In a recent editorial, the management of this station that Charles Schulz had used his advertising work to kill off a beloved cast member of a competing strip. In the interest of community service and with the goal of meeting our obligations under the Federal Equal Time Provisions, we hereby …
My Charlie Brown Life
I just finished reading My Charlie Brown Life, Debi Staples’s “spiritual autobiography”, recently made available by the small e-book and print-on-demand publisher SynergEBooks. This book tells the tale of her life, and her journey from a church-oriented Christian belief to [SPOILER ALERT] a much more general God-is-everyone spirituality, peppered with a …
Lucy… stole… a jeep?
When I gave my talk at Beaglefest last month, I spoke mainly of the upcoming Complete Peanuts volume 26, showing off the things that would be included in that volume, as well as some of the things that wouldn’t be. And I did display off one of my favorite spot illustrations that …
Limited T’s of limited legality
What’s bugging me today is that the number of unlicensed Peanuts t-shirts that are showing up in paid Facebook placement is increasing. You may know the ones, they come from “fan clubs” you’ve never heard of before and don’t otherwise exist, they’re “limited editions” or “limited time”. They’re some folks …
RIP Little Red Haired Girl
We are saddened to report the passage of Donna Mae Wold, the woman who Charles Schulz called “The Little Red Haired Girl”, whom he wanted to marry, and who lent inspiration to Peanuts. She was 87. Donna Mae Wold Obituary | Star Tribune
I will NOT obsess over this like I do Charlie Brown Christmas adaptations!
Having talked about the two book adaptations of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown that I had not expected to buy when I went to my local Hallmark store, what about the one that I did expect to buy? I quickly thought that I did not have to buy it. After …
We’ve seen this title before
When I went to the Hallmark store, I was looking for the 50th anniversary edition of the adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. And I found it. And as I noted yesterday, I also found another adaptation of that same TV special, only a light-up, pop-up edition. And I found …
Even my eyes lit up when I saw this!
When I went to Hallmark to buy one book adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, they sold me two! And, as this short video shows, it has something special to it (those getting the blog via email may need to click through to see this.) That’s right, it’s a …