Discounty Peanuts books (and more).
So, you kind of wanted to read the biography Schulz & Peanuts, but after hearing the controversy, you were wary of putting much money in the pockets of the writer and publisher? Well, here’s your chance to get it for very little — $2.99 for a copy from Barnes & …
Now shipping: Peanuts Holiday Box Set
Now shipping is the new itty boxed set of adaptations of animated specials. You get Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day, so you’ll get through much of the year with this one boxed set. I would guess that the adaptations are the same as the ones that publisher Running Press …
How I’ll be celebrating the 60th anniversary of Peanuts
October 2nd will be the 6oth anniversary of the first appearance of Peanuts in the funnypages. So, what’ll ye olde AAUGH Blogger be doing to celebrate the date? Will I be doing an all-day Peanuts blogathon? Or reading through stacks of The Complete Peanuts? Nope. I’ll be creating my own …
Some online notes
My 5-year old daughter was playing her favorite online game Poptropica, and suddenly called me over to show me they’ve added a “Great Pumpkin Island” to the game, with Linus. Looks like they’re going to be adding more stuff to it soon. Those of you going to the actual blog …
I was wrong
Remember how, a month back, I said that the new Running Press edition of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was just as reprinting of last year’s Hallmark Special Edition adaptation? You don’t? You don’t spend your days memorizing what I say? Well, in this case that’s good, because I …
Back to The Peanuts Collection
Strolling back through my upcoming book The Peanuts Collection, we’re up to, let’s see, page 26, which is a spread about Peanuts licensing. The decoration on this spread are largely of books – a Peanuts Datebook from 1962 (an early Determined Productions product), of the Woman’s Sports Foundation’s Cookbook (with …
Peanuts switching syndicates
I doubt that news in the syndication world gets much bigger than this – this coming February, after more than 60 years with United Feature Syndicate, Peanuts will instead be distributed by Universal. This is not Universal’s first venture into the Peanuts world – their publishing arm Andrews McMeel published …
Complete Peanuts volume 14 now shipping
The Complete Peanuts volume 14 (1977-1978) is now available for immediate shipping from Amazon. Which is actually kind of frustrating for me because my usual comp copy has not yet arrived. So now I have to figure out if it’s just running late (in which case I must be patient), …
More on Nat’s book (note: that’s not “Moron Nat’s book”)
Been a slow news period, but it’s about time to do some more flipping through The Peanuts Collection, the upcoming slipcased hardcover look at Peanuts which I provided the text for. We’re up to page 18 here, and this spread is about advertising and Peanuts. The text talks about some …
Peanuts specials stay on ABC
It’s a little early for me to get my usual requests to note the date, time, and channel of the upcoming airings of the key “classic” specials (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and A Charlie Brown Christmas), but I can get one part of the …