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Only a little Peanuts

The fine folks at GeekDad (well, mainly my pal Mordechai) have posted an interview with me, with one Peanuts question (the ol’ “what’s your favorite Peanuts story” one, but mostly about another project (yes, I do do non-Peanutsy things.)

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Novels by Monte Schulz

For those interested in the larger Schulz family: this December, Complete Peanuts publisher Fantagraphics will be offering Crossing Eden, collecting Schulz’s son Monte’s Jazz Age novel trilogy into a single volume.

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History is delayed

The next three Peanuts storybooks in the Great American Adventure line from the conservative imprint Little Patriot Press have been pushed back. These were supposed to ship in September, now not until next May. These books are: I Declare, Charlie Brown! looks at the founding of the country (“Declare” as in “Declaration …

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Franklin

Franklin’s “Mom” gets the good treatment in Philly

You’ve seen me talking before about Harriet Glickman, the woman whose letter to Schulz inspired him to create Franklin in the 1960s – the letter itself is included as a pull-out item in my book The Peanuts Collection. Since then, she’s been getting ongoing attention, which hit a high point over …

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New releases

Charlie Brown is Golden

You’re Golden, Charlie Brown is a recently released strip collection focused on the round-headed kid. It’s 150 pages of strips all from the mid-1960s, with three dailies (colorized) or one Sunday on each page (and, as with the previous volumes in this Ballantine Books format, with a curiously large hunk of …

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The Peanuts booth at Comic Con

We’ll see how well my remote blogging tool does:        

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Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance

The new book Keep Calm and Do the Snoopy Dance is a little hardback gift book that includes a few Peanuts strips in it, but is mainly page after page of inspirational quotes (many with dancing mentioned as a source of joy), each with the same small picture of Snoopy tipping …

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You will believe a beagle can fly

This drone is making me very happy.

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Nat in San Diego – change of plans

I’m still only going to be at the San Diego Comic-Con for one day, but due to some family matters (don’t worry, nothing of concern), that day will be FRIDAY, not Thursday as previously announced. I’ll be wearing the unique shirt below, so if you see someone wearing it, stop …

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Many different Charlies Brown

Finally, we have  a cover for Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the book where various artists get to bring their own style to Peanuts. We also have a fuller artist list: Mike Allred, Art Baltazar, Paige Braddock, Megan Brennan, Frank Cammuso, Colleen Coover, Evan Dorkin, Chynna Flores, Julie Fujii, Shaenon …

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