The mail carrier has just brought me my latest eBay purchase, Happy Birthday Person to Person. For those of you less than about half a century old, “person-to-person” is an old telephone term. You could either call “station-to-station”, which basically means that you get charged for the call when anyone answers …

I’ve only just noticed that the spine of the thirteenth volume of the Complete Peanuts series has Charlie Brown facing the reader, while all the earlier volumes have various characters heading to the left and all the later ones heading toward the right. When the series is done this will …

If the word going around yesterday is correct, at the time you read this, you’ll be able to order Amazon Prime service for a year for $72, which is $27 off the usual price. I’ve been using this service for a couple years, and it’s worth it to me. It …

Peanuts in comic book magazines has always been a matter of short pieces, from the earliest day where it was just a matter of reprinting strips, through the days when it was largely made up of stories of four to eight pages. That was true through the Peanuts appearances in …

Those of you who do not live by a presidential museum may not realize that they end up getting used for many things beyond just a museum for that president’s artifacts. They’re ongoing concerns, and they keep finding ways to draw folks in, as well as serving as meeting places. …

I’m watching Snoopy Come Home (it’s streaming on HuluPlus at this point.) We see Snoopy and Woodstock get into a bus, and immediately, they’re both kicked to the curb. Then we see the sign: “No dogs allowed.” So why did Woodstock get kicked off?

Let me apologize for the relative silence on the blog this week; I’ve been dealing with both writing deadlines (which I’ve gotten clear of) and a cold (which I have not). But I can tell you that as promised, I now have Let’s Dance, Snoopy, and to answer the question I put …

The strip collection Let’s Dance, Snoopy is now shipping. I should have my copy in my hands within a couple days, and then I’ll be able to tell whether it is still promoted as a 65th Anniversary book or not (the early title listings said so, but the samples currently showing …

For something I’m working on, I could use a bit of input from the vast hivemind of Peanuts fans out there. Can any of you name any (non-Peanuts) novels that use Snoopy in either of these two ways: As a real character, as if the beagle from the strip is …

The latest in Fantagraphics’s series of square seasonal giftbooks is A Valentine for Charlie Brown. And it’s good at what it is, but may not be good for what you’d want it for. It’s good because it’s a collection of Valentine’s Day-themed Peanuts strips, broken up into three sections: one about …