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 …
The star shining at Bethlehem turns out to be Mars… Veronica Mars
They’ve announced the air date for A Charlie Brown Christmas this year – November 30th – but they’re planning to do it up in style, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the beloved show. They’re going to have a star-laden special around it, with live performances of the music, with celebrities …
The Brown car
Sometimes, to get some Peanuts information, one has to reach beyond the Peanuts sources. For example, the other day while researching something else altogether, I came upon a Ford muscle car forum where a few years ago, Ford enthusiasts were discussing a Sunday strip that had just rerun. That strip, …
Two types of Halloween
Modern book adaptations of Peanuts specials generally shorten the special, because a TV special will have more content than a standard children’s picture book will hold. (This is, I should note, the opposite situation from adult novel adaptations of feature films, where they will add scenes not in the movie, as a …
Happy Franklin Day
Today is the 47th anniversary of the first appearance of Franklin in Peanuts, and they’re making a big thing of it! You can see coverage of National Franklin Day in newspapers, it was the reason for yesterday’s material on The View. Harriet Glickman, the woman who suggested the addition of the …
Peanuts movie books forever!
We’ve already seen a number of books adapting The Peanuts Movie that will be coming out this year around the time the film arrives. It turns out, that’s not the end of it! Slated for May of next year is Peanuts: The Movie Book, available in editions with and without a CD. …
That first Peanuts book
The new edition of the first Peanuts book, titled simply Peanuts, doesn’t hit regular bookstores until next month, but it’s already landed at comic book stores. The reproduction is good and sharp, they reproduced from an early printing so it still have the introduction in it that was missing from later …