Buying those Charlie Brown Christmas stamps
I’m already getting questions from folks about how to buy those Charlie Brown Christmas stamps. They hit the streets in October, but you should be able to preorder them at The Postal Store @ USPS.com sometime in September. However, as best as I can tell (and that is a real limitation) they only ship …
The Snoopy Special
Things have been a little quiet on the Kaboom! comic book front of late, but coming in November is a one-shot comic Peanuts: The Snoopy Special. “Follow Snoopy, the World Famous Sergeant-Major of the Foreign Legion, on the mission of a lifetime to save his dear brother Spike, encountering adventure at …
Unauthorized and undetailed
When the money train is rolling, everyone tries to get their piece of the pie. Or maybe some different mixed metaphor is called for, but it’s a truth. One example of that is a Kindle article that popped up recently, An Unauthorized Preview of The Peanuts Movie: The 2015 Film based on …
A different sort of Charlie Brown Christmas book
As anyone who has been reading this blog for more than a couple of months knows, I luuuuuvs my A Charlie Brown Christmas books. Well, now a different one has been announced – a stamp book! Well, booklet. 20 stamps, 10 different designs, coming in October, according to the announcement from the …
“Making of” cover
We’ve got a cover (pretty, isn’t it?) for the The Peanuts Movie making-of book, which drops a month before the movie. Author Jerry Schmitz has written similar books for a couple of the Shrek films, and this volume has a forward by director Steve Martino and Fox Animation president Vanessa …
Snoopy goes to Tokyo
I’ve been looking for an excuse to go to Tokyo (Ive never been there… or to anywhere beyond North America and its associated islands, for that matter). And the newly announced Snoopy Museum Tokyo just adds that much more to the desire. For that matter, there’s a chance that it …
Oh, the movie has Snoopy AND Charlie Brown. That’s good to know.
The book that was previously listed as The Peanuts Movie Book is now coming up as Snoopy & Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie Novelization.
Today’s bit of pointless Charles Schulz trivia
When Schulz played golf in the 1964 Crosby ProAm, he was the “Am” (amateur) paired with a pro named Bryant Harvard. Now Bryant, as a pro golfer, had a fairly undistinguished career, winning no major tournaments. He did, however, achieve years before this tournament one thing that I’m pretty sure …
Getting Snoopy Treasures at the comic book shop
You can, of course, preorder my November book The Snoopy Treasures from Amazon. For those of you who would rather preorder from your local comic book store, they should now be working on their orders for that month. Let them know now that you want item code AUG15 1911.
The deluge is rolling in
The The Peanuts Movie promotion has been coming on strong for a while, as they build up to sell the movie… and now we’re already starting with the movie being used to sell other things. I just ran into the ad seen here (note, this is not a paid placement), using …