Dodged a bullet
The Peanuts book editor who is deserving a little extra bonus right about now is whoever said, for this year’s April re-release of Peanuts Guide to Life, “hey, that first edition had a foreword by Bill Cosby, and he’s still popular and all, but maybe we should replace that with one …
Peanuts movie availability
For folks with subscriptions to HuluPlus, the first two Peanuts films, A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy Come Home, are now available for viewing on that service. As for the other two movies, they’re both apparently coming out on DVD in the coming year. TVShowsOnDVD.com notes that Race for Your Life, Charlie …
got myself a gifty!
Yes, yes, I gave in and paid eBay prices for one of these, after spending months looking for one in the wild.
Far better than those cuddleproofed Snoopys
I like to believe I’m great at catching Peanuts-related books that go through normal book distribution channels, and pretty good at spotting ones that go outside of those channels… but sometimes, one eludes me. That’s the case with the book Best Friends. No, no, not the book Best Friends that came bundled …
The Peanuts movie cast
Here’s the Today Show piece they aired yesterday introducing the new Peanuts voice cast, after some light chat with Craig Schulz and producer Paul Feig. Yes, it is appropriately a cast of kids again. (Not seen of course is the one adult, the late Bill Melendez, whose voice work is being reused …
Free CB Thanksgiving App
Today only, Amazon is offering the A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving app for Android for free!
Peanuts Black Thursday through Sunday savings
The Boom! Studios store is having this big sale: So here’s the Peanuts search results there. I might be using this to get some of the variant covers I’m missing.
Ten bucks off of a book today!
Today-only HOLIDAY30 coupon code for Amazon means 30% off of any one book, maximum $10 savings. Max out that savings with this beautiful Peanuts Every Sunday volume… or click on through and order whatever you want.
Holiday thoughts 2014
I do roughly this same message every year, so let me start with the too-long-didn’t-read version, and then we can get into the subsections: Gifts are good, but they’re rarely important, nor the best way to show that you care. Gifts of charitable donations are a very good form of …
The force behind Franklin speaks!
Mashable has up an article on the creation of Franklin, including a video of a Schulz Museum interview with the woman whose urging convinced Schulz it was time to integrate the strip.