Sparky no longer drawing funny pictures, plus gift thoughts
The young-folked-aimed biography that I mentioned a while back as being called Drawing Funny Pictures: The Life and Times of Charles M. Schulz is now going to be titled Sparky: The Life and Times of Charles M. Schulz, and the release date has been moved up to April. And as …
Correcting Celebrating Peanuts and discounting Dilbert
I’ve seen a number of sites linking to this review on PopMatters of Celebrating Peanuts, the big thick 60th anniversary strip collection, and it’s an interesting piece, but it makes some arguable arguments and gets a few things wrong… and while I’ve addressed some of that in a comment there, …
This year’s Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, with savings before and after
Just got an email from someone who could not find A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on this year’s U.S. TV schedule. It’s there on Thanksgiving day itself – 8 PM (most areas) on ABC. So after you’ve made your own thanksgiving feast in the toaster, you can share Charlie Brown’s! By …
A Charlie Brown Christmas – the music, cheap!
Amazon is running a sale; you can download the expanded edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas for $5. (Saw it for sale on vinyl the other day – new pressing – for $25.)
Another one from the class of 1950
As I’ve noted before, there was a rather powerful year in comics about the time that the Peanuts launched. Dennis the Menace and Beetle Bailey also launched within the course of a year… all strips that are still running in a large number of papers almost 60 years later. And …
You Can Be Anything Cheap
The Peanuts kiddie hardcover You Can Be Anything is now available remaindered for 60% off the cover price. Now with remainders, I always warn that they may be marked with a remainder mark… but more and more, I’m finding that the copies from both Amazon and B&N aren’t marked, or …
Why Pay More, Charlie Brown, Why?
The Barnes & Noble discount pile has added in copies of Why, Charlie Brown, Why?, the Schulz-illustrated book adaptation of the touching special about a young girl coping with a serious illness. These $15.95 hardbacks are on sale for $5.38 apiece. They may have remainder marks. And for those who …
My Life with Charlie Brown
Coming in April, My Life with Charlie Brown – M. Thomas Inge culls from Schulz’s own words to paint a picture of his life. Let me note that at the moment this book is exactly $25, which means if you order it now, you should lock in the free shipping… …
Everything I Need to Know cover
Everything I need to Know I Learned from Peanuts is shipping next March, but can be preordered now.
an apology
I have come to understand that in my zeal for all things Peanuts-booky, I may have, in the past year or so, spent too much time focused on book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas, to the detriment of other things which I may have covered. Here, I hope to …