Now you can have your own small world
A while back, I posted a message about an obscure comic strip called “Small World” (and seem to have confused a few of you, because I thought I’d posted about it earlier but hadn’t.) I was wrestling with the question of whether this odd strip was influenced by Peanuts. I …
Peanuts from the silent black-and-white era
So I picked up these coloring books from the 1970s – outside my usual collecting guidelines, of course, but they were all Christmas-themed, and the Peanuts/Christmas link is on my mind these days. Besides, they were cheap and, as it turns out, in immaculate condition. But I find them kind …
A Charlie Brown Christmas is Officially Important, musicwise
Each year, the U.S. Library of Congress names a set of audio recordings that are of historical importance, and this year’s announcement of 25 new inductees includes the soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas! The announcement notes: “A Charlie Brown Christmas” introduced jazz to millions of listeners. The television soundtrack …
Here’s the cover for Snoopy’s Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook Kit, shipping in October and preorderable now. The kit will come with Peanuts-themed cookie cutters. I gotta admit, seeing that “all recipes are free of wheat, corn & soy” instantly creates the image in my brain that it’s all rocks …
A close-up look at my work on Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking
Today’s work: looking at the artwork, trying to erase the stray dots that have been caused by printing and scanning and half a century of time passing, while not erasing stray dots actually caused by the ink pen of Charles M. Schulz. If he’d only signed each genuine stray dot, …
Dale Hale and the “Peanuts” Comic Book: The Interview « Hogan’s Alley
My interview with Dale Hale, artist on the old Dell/Gold Key “Peanuts” comic books. This is the same interview that’s on the AAUGH.com site, but the Hogan’s Alley site is running it with the images that were used in the print edition.
Team Snoopy
Now shipping is Happiness is… Peanuts: Team Snoopy, a DVD combining the TV special Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown with some sports-oriented material from The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show. I love the phrasing “An All-New Collection” There’s not any new material, just a new combination of things… and …
Peanuts – Free Comic Book Day edition
If you headed to your comic book shop today for Free Comic Book Day (and if not, why not? I mean, which word in the phrase “free comic book” don’t you like?), then you may have grabbed up the Kaboom!/Boom Studios Free Comic Book Day flip book – half Peanuts, …
In the interest of accuracy
I am seeing comments suggesting that the Kirby credit on the Avengers movie may not be as small as earlier reports suggested; I have not verified for myself yet. Still, ABuckForJack.com is a good idea.
The difference between enjoyment and respect
Enjoying a creative work and being respectful to the talented folks who created it are two different things, and that conflict shows up a lot these days. It shows up in all forms of intellectual property abuse… which in this Internet age most obviously includes piracy of music and movies …