Hallmark haul
As promised, I went to the local Hallmark shop, and found… no knowledge of the Peanuts sale. No signage. Talked to someone who appeared to be the manager, and she was unaware of such a sale. So I mentioned that it was on Hallmark’s website, and she went into her …
Hallmarkdown!
Hallmark is having a 25% off sale on Peanuts gift stuff, online and in-store. This includes the new It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: 50th Anniversary Book.
See Nat! See roller derby! All at once! This can’t end well…
For my Los Angeles-area fans, friends, and followers: I’ll be appearing tomorrow, Saturday August 13, at the Derby Comic-Con… which is a small comic convention being held before and through half-time of a roller derby match! Yup, your L.A. Derby Dolls decided to put on something special, something unique. Will this turn …
A correction
In the post that I made on the contents of Complete Peanuts 26, I accidentally referred to some of the material having appeared first in Playboy, which was simply a mind-buffer error. That material had appeared in Sports Illustrated. (I was also having some dealings with the works of Dedini, a cartoonist …
P:PAPS
Well, I’ve finally taken the shrink-wrap off of Peanuts: Play Along Piano Songs, the musical item with the integrated 9-key musical keyboard and 9 built-in songs. Press one of the song buttons, the music plays, then the book coaches you through playing the song by lighting up each key you’re …
Snoopy’s many rescues
The book that was previously listed just as Peanuts Spring Collection 2017 now has a title, Snoopy to the Rescue. It’s a good name… which is why it’s been used before. Repeatedly. In 1991, the UK’s Ladybird Books published snoopy to the rescue (lower-case theirs), a storybook by Gordon Volke. In 1987, …
Pop fizzles
So I picked this up at Target. This is one of a line of figures released around the time of The Peanuts Movie, although it’s not a movie license; now, it was 75% off its original price, bringing it down under $3. The Pop! line, for those who don’t know it, …
So what IS in Complete Peanuts 26
When Fantagraphics asked me to help make a 26th volume for the always-announced-as-25-volumes Complete Peanuts series, they were only looking for half a book of cartoon material, of Schulz Peanuts that hadn’t appeared in the daily strip and thus hadn’t been in the other 25 volumes. So I rounded up some …
So exclusive, you can’t get ’em
By the end of the first full day of Comic Con, the exclusive Woodstock figure was sold out. The second day is not over yet, and the coloring book is sold out, as is a set of buttons that was not in the early listing, as are most of the …
One last find before I drove off to Beaglefest
Purchased today at Costco! Peanuts Play Along Piano Songs: The keys light up when you press ’em! Not available at Amazon, but yes, available at Barnes & Noble! I’ll see some of you tonight!