Keeping Snoopy off your bumper
The bad economy – specifically, the California state budget crisis – is apparently slowing down efforts by the state’s museum organization to make an official Snoopy license plate available. My fellow Californians are of course suffering through myriad effects of the budget crisis, but you from out of state can …
Review: In the Shadow of the Family Dog
Having now read through that first installment of In the Shadow of the Family Dog (it’s quite short; it is, after all, meant to be only an installment) I can assure people that this is not some hatchet job on Dena Hodges grandfather, Charles Schulz. Quite the opposite, as demonstrated …
Schulz granddaughter ebook
Noted but not yet reviewed – now available for your Kindle is the first installment of In the Shadow of the Family Dog, which is autobiographical material from Dena Hodges, Schulz’s granddaughter (the daughter of Schulz’s eldest daughter Meredith). From her descriptors elsewhere, it’s clear that this is intended to …
Warm Blanket GN now orderable through Amazon
Amazon’s system now has the hardcover Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown graphic novel adaptation available for preorder. It has been added to the upcoming Peanuts book list, which has ten different books (well, seven books, ten editions) available for preorder at the moment, as well as a listing …
Review: the non-graphic novel Warm Blanket book
I just received the first book edition of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown – not the upcoming graphic novel that’s been being discussed here lately, but the kids storybook version being published by Running Press Kids. The adaptation is by Jennifer Fox, with art by Paige Braddock and …
Warm Blanket graphic novel hardcover now preorderable
The rush-solicited hardcover graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown is now available for preorder from Barnes & Noble, at a nice discount, but not yet available from Amazon. (The original announcement was that the book would be available in March, but Barnes & Noble doesn’t …
Oh, a LEAF globe
Oh, I get it now! It’s not “globe” as in “spherical map”; it’s “globe” as in “sno-globe”, only presumably with leaves instead of sno. That’s what the It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown leaf globe thing is that’s coming out in August. Later, when I’m not pinned under a one-and-a-half …
Available for preorder: Complete Peanuts v. 16
You can now preorder The Complete Peanuts Volume 16: 1981-1982, as well as the boxed set with both volumes 15 and 16. Volume 16 will have an introduction by Lynn Johnston… which is a kindly return, because Schulz did introduction writing for collections of “For Better Or For Worse”, Johnston’s …
Peanuts movies bargain
Whoops, two DVD posts in a row, but I just noticed that Paramount (who has the DVD rights to the Peanuts theatrical releases) is putting out a nice bargain in a couple weeks – a two disk set with both A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Come Home, now …
Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show DVD coming
Coming in June is the DVD Snoopy’s Adventures, which includes the “Snoopy and the Giant” episode of the Saturday morning cartoon series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, plus Snoopy’s Getting Married. I’m not sure why Amazon is listing it as being 135 minutes; I can’t find any source suggesting …