that Halloween Peanuts comic
I just got my order of a couple hundred comic books to give away to trick-or-treaters (yes, I get somewhere in the three figures of young visitors each year. Yipe!) including a goodly pile of the Boom! Studios Halloween Fright Fest 2014 comic. It’s got an Adventure Time story and a Fraggle Rock …
those 500 new Peanuts shorts
The 500 new short Peanuts animations being created by Normaal in France have been getting some attention of late. There are at least a couple of examples out there, floating around in the wild; I’m not going to link to them here because they appear to be unauthorized. But this …
Adding insult to injury to Peanuts books
In the time between when I web-ordered my A Charlie Brown Christmas book fabric panels and when they will presumable arrive, the JoAnn Fabric website first ran out of panels, then lowered the price by another $2.50 per panel. If I was all out of them, I’d only charge a nickel …
I cover covers
Here are the covers for some of next year’s kiddie books. (Click covers to go preorder.)
A thing I will, in later years, regret not buying
The original Schulz cover art for a Peanuts strip collection.
Peanuts Guides to Life
The new British series Peanuts Guide to Life is a nice one. This is a series of character-oriented, themed strip collections. We get: The Genius of Charlie Brown Life Lessons from Lucy The Philosophy of Snoopy The Wisdom of Woodstock. These are hardcovers, no dust jackets, but with golden highlights on …
Big Beautiful Book
What do you get for the Peanuts fan who has everything? Bigger bookshelves. I was sitting here, thinking how hectic I am for the next few days, who I’ve not time for anything, when the Peanuts Book Fairy drove his big brown box truck up and dropped off two books. …
Quick little notes
Now shipping are: volume 2 of the paperback edition of The Complete Peanuts, the boxed set of the first two volumes in that series, and the fourth trade paperback collection of the Kaboom! Peanuts comics. (I won’t be reviewing that last, as it’s got some of my work in it. But …
A book! An A Charlie Brown Christmas Book!
I admit, I was fretting about it. It was once again looking like it would be a year without a new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. There were none coming through the regular book channels. We have avoided this disaster narrowly at times, with a Hallmark-only book, or something …
What filmstrips there are
Yes, yes, another post on Charlie Brown’s Career Education Program, the filmstrip series that was underwritten by your tax dollars… at least, if you were paying federal taxes in the US in the late 1970s. According the booklets, these were underwritten by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, …