C’mon baby, write my Peanuts
As a collector, I’ve seen a lot of examples of people parodying Peanuts by replacing the dialogue with something a bit more x-rated. It has been done well at times, but that’s the exception. But there was at least one interesting example that I didn’t know about… interesting for the most …
Peanuts programming at San Diego Comic-Con 2015
There is at least some Peanuts-related programming during each of the four full days of next week’s Comic-Con International: San Diego. Here are descriptions copy’n’pasted from the official listings. Peanuts 65th Anniversary Panel In 2015, Charles M. Schulz’s iconic Peanuts gang celebrates not only their 65th anniversary but also two …
Have you seen this book?
Someone let me know that they had found a copy of The Zipper on My Bible is Stuck at a Barnes & Noble… which is very odd. Because I published that book, and we never sold any copies to B&N, nor any other book source. It was available to/through some of …
Peanuts Movie OGN is DOA
There was a book in the catalogs as Peanuts Movie OGN, indicating that a graphic novel would be hitting in August in the style of the movie. Well, the ISBN (an identification number) that was being used for that is now being used for September’s Where Beagles Dare graphic novel – which …
Snoopy: Party Animal
Coming in March 2016 is Snoopy: Party Animal, which looks to be another in the AMP Comics For Kids full-color strip collections. And as long as I’m making a post: on Monday, I stopped by Snoopy’s Gallery & Gift Shop in Santa Rosa, and signed a dozen or so copies of The …
Pocky stars
A friend gave this to me, a Japanese candy box. What makes me happiest is not that the Peanuts characters are windsurfing, nor that Belle is front and center (I’m well used to the fact that this very minor strip character is huge in licensing.) No, the happy-making thing is …
LIghtly outlines Peanuts
Got in a couple more books from the UK, Snoopy Saves the Day and Best of Friends. These are two Charlie-Brown-and-Snoopy oriented storybooks, telling original tales using an interesting visual style. The art by Tom Brannon (who has done some interesting modeled-looking Peanuts in the US) takes an interesting tack – he …
Christmas comes at least twice this year
They’re now listing a paperback edition of the new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas that’s coming out this September (at first, they had listed only a Kindle edition.) Couple that with the deluxe hardcover edition of an earlier adaptation which ships the same day, and that means at least two …
Peanuts Comic-Con Exclusives 2015
For those of you… those of us… headed to the San Diego Comic-Con next month, the Peanuts booth (booth 1637) will have some only-at-Comic-Con items for sale. They have a selection of t-shirts based on visuals from The upcoming Peanuts Movie (twenty-five bucks apiece). and they continue their series of Schleich figurines with one …
Where Beagles Dare!
Looks like a new original graphic novel called Where Beagles Dare! is going to be hitting the market in September 15, which the publisher is promoting as being “in the same style we’ll see them on the silver screen”, but judging by the preview up at the Los Angeles Times website, the volume written …