To Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and especially Lucy
I just ran into a Peanuts reference that I had not remembered in a favorite piece of pop culture, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It’s a second season episode, “The Care and Feeding of Parents”. Bess, the daughter of Phylis, Mary’s downstairs neighbor, is writing a book, and she proposes to dedicate …
Now available: The Snoopy Treasures!
At long last, that we have all been waiting for when we didn’t have anything better to do has occurred: my new book The Snoopy Treasures: A Celebration of the World Famous Beagle has started shipping from Amazon! And the reviews have started coming in, and so far, they’ve all been …
Updates on release dates for Snoopy Treasures and Peanuts Movie 2: Franklin’ Trainin’
Three minutes ago, Amazon was listing my new book The Snoopy Treasures as going to be in stock on November 21. I reloaded the page now, and it’s now November 16. In either case, it will be available in plenty of time to be given as a Thanksgiving gift, if you want …
The Humble Bundle gets even less Humble
The Humble Bundle folks have added two more Peanuts book to their Peanuts book deal (and yes, it’s retroactive; if you’ve already paid for your bundle, you get these books as well.) They’ve thrown in the graphic novel It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown and the strip collection A Valentine for Charlie Brown. That means that …
Comes with more bamboo sticks than any other Peanuts product I can think of!
This set of things-to-hold-up-to-yourself-while-getting-your-picture-taken, Peanuts Photo Props, is listed as a hardcover book. Seems more like a box thing, I don’t know, but as long as they’re saying that, hey, it qualifies for my coverage. (It’s also listed as 23 pages, which is mathematically problematic.) I’m hoping the pictures on the …
Maybe it’s a treasure hunt!
Yes, my new book The Snoopy Treasures was supposed to start shipping today. No, it did not actually start shipping today. No, I don’t know how long the delay is. Yes, the book exists. I have copies. We shall see.
e-Small World
A couple years back, I reprinted a collection of this odd comic strip which launched in 1952. Small World by Sam Brier handles adult concerns in kids in a different way than Peanuts does, by depicting two kids who are pretending to be adults… or is it adults drawn as …
Peanuts loses to a Seuss
The final weekend tally for The Peanuts Movie in North America is in, and at $44,213,073, it remains the second biggest opening weekend for a non-Pixar G-rated movie, beaten out by Horton Hears a Who…. which was also directed by Steve Martino. (Not that any of this is directly important; the long-term …
Snoopy in Chinese English
Go here for some coverage by CNC World, a China-based English language news channel, of the Snoopy Hollywood Walk Of Fame dedication. Yes, I’m blogging this mainly so that certain people can see my incompetency at trying to hold my book up to the camera (I appear at 2:19). I’m trying to …