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 …
The Return of Peanuts Wisdom and Work and Play
A small publisher has just rereleased a couple books from the run of gifty hardcover strip reprints that showed up from Harper Collins in the 1990s. At the moment, it looks like these are available through Barnes & Noble only, at a cheap under-$6 price for these hardcovers. Now available …
Warm Blanket graphic novel available for pre-order… sorta
Sometime this month, the hardcover graphic novel adaptation of the new direct-to-DVD release Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown will hit the shelves and the mailboxes of the nation at a list price just under $20, but because of its last-minute solicitation, it is not yet available for preorder. …
The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is a book we already have a copy of… but in a format we don’t have a copy of. In fact, I’m not sure if we can actually call it a book. It’s a series of square pages with rounded corners, linked …
Ordering the Warm Blanket graphic novel
If you’re one of those folks who likes to order your books from your comic book store, tell them -now- that you want the graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, and tell them that it’s listed in “Previews Plus”, and the code is JAN118101. The …