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Peanuts movie design art peek

Well, the release of the new Peanuts movie, produced by Blue Sky Studios is still about a year away. And we’ll see a small amount of design art from it in The Art of Blue Sky Studios, which drops in two weeks. But if you head over to that book’s listing …

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Everything I Need to Learn, and More!

Coming in March is a revised, redesigned edition of the Peanuts quote book Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Peanuts. And having gotten that out of the way, and finding that this first blog post in days is quite short, I’m going to be horribly exploitive of this blog …

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music

Nice round Charlie Brown sounds for Christmas

If you’re worrying about the kids being unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, perhaps the new CD Lullaby Renditions of A Charlie Brown Christmas from Baby Rockstar is the thing that you need. Head on over and check out the samples. And if you’re planning a Christmas gift for an audiophile, how about …

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Psycho-economy of Charlie Brown

Coming next month for Kindle users (and preorderable now) is The Psycho-economy of Charlie Brown: Strategies for a happier society. Well, actually, it’s La psicoeconomia di Charlie Brown: Strategie per una società più felice, because the darned thing is in Italian. And (courtesy of Google Translate), this is what it’s about: Nobody …

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New releases

What I got on Friday

After three straight days of receiving packages of Peanuts books, Thursday was a downer… but Friday perked me back up with a nice big case. This turned out to be my comp copies of Classic Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit, which includes my short book Classic Peanuts: Great Moments. Now, while receiving this makes …

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Lucy van Randian

Lucy lists some of the people who make this country great, from the Hallmark book What Makes This Country So Great? (1972). So my suggestion in the previous post that a Peanuts book might have endorsed Ayn Rand was not coming out of left field,

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New releases

Who Cares, Charlie Brown?

I received no Peanuts books in the mail yesterday. Zero, nada, none. But I should start catching up on the books I received on the previous three days. The box of three books yesterday were all three initial books in the new Little Patriot Press line of Peanuts storybooks. These are …

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Classic finds

Oh, No! Charlie Green!

While looking into Kanrom, the company that published the books I reprinted in Happiness is a Rat Fink and Unhappiness is a Dirty Dog, I discovered that wasn’t the last time that company took on Schulz’s work. In 1971, they put out a booklet (which was much of what they published, …

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Upcoming releases

Let’s Dance, Snoopy cover

Here’s the announced cover for Let’s Dance, Snoopy: 65 Years of Peanuts, which ships in January. I’ve already preordered my copy, have you?

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Animated Peanuts

Scanimation strikes

Part of the avalanche of Peanuts books landing on my doorstep this week is Peanuts: A Scanimation Book. This is one of those books where when you turn the page, a picture animates, like the Peanuts Moving Book I reviewed a few months back. The ten scenes in this book are …

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