The media is reporting that Rod McKuen has died at 81. A popular poet during the 1960s and 1970s, McKuen’s relevancy to the Peanuts world is that he wrote several songs for the film A Boy Named Charlie Brown, including the title track which earned an Oscar nomination.

Coming in April is issue 27, with this pretty, pretty cover, and with yet again just one, full issue long story (although this one will be normal-issue length, a 22 page tale). Title is “Get Well Soon, Charlie Brown!” Let your comic shop know if you want it.

I wish that, while I was writing stories for the Peanuts comic book, I had done one about Pig-Pen playing ping-pong. That would look cool and it’s fun to talk about!

Free Comic Book Day isn’t until May 2, but they’ve already announced the participating books (so that retailers can order them). And yes, there will be some Peanuts content in the free comic being issued by Boom!, but given the ten different series they intend to showcase in the book, expect …

Coming in September is another trio of Peanuts storybooks in the Great American Adventure line from the conservative imprint Little Patriot Press. I Declare, Charlie Brown! looks at the founding of the country (“Declare” as in “Declaration of Independence”, I take it.) It’s a New World, Charlie Brown! goes back to …

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. …