Celebrating Peanuts: a review
The big thick 60th anniversary book Celebrating Peanuts is out, and I gotta say that if you gotta have just one Peanuts book, this is a pretty good choice. (Then again, if you gotta have just one Peanuts book, this is an odd blog for you to be reading. But …
Now shipping: Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years
Now shipping: Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years, the big thick anniversary strip collection that lists for $75, but you can now order with more than $25 off of that.
an expensive booklet, with free DVDs?
So I’m in Costco the other day, and they’ve got the Peanuts Holiday Collection, the boxed set of three of the current-edition DVDs (It’s the Great Pumpkin, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and A Charlie Brown Christmas), and I notice it’s got a sticker on it. Not the price sticker (although …
A double-dose of Pumpkin
I am now seeing reports that ABC has added another airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for this year, airing it in a half-hour slot on the 28th in addition to the hour long slot of Peanuts goodness the night before. Their airing it instead of an episode …
Linus and Lucy 2: The Revenge!
AAUGH Blog reader Dave from Nashville steered me to some tweets from George Winston, who recorded the very successful album Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi. Looks like his next album will return to that well, and will be called Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi …
Planning ahead for next Halloween!
You can now preorder next year’s adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown… which seems likely to be the same adaptation as the one currenty available in Hallmark stores. You can also preorder Sparky: The Live and Art of Charles Schulz, the bio-for-kids shipping in March. As I’ve noted …
The paperback Peanuts – now in hardcover!
Remember Peanuts: The Art of Charles M Schulz, that cool-looking hardcover that Chip Kidd put together? And then they came out with the paperback, and it had about 30 pages of additional material? Well, now they’ve come out with a discount hardcover edition, and judging by the page count, it’s …
Now available for preorder: Complete Peanuts 1975-1976
The Complete Peanuts: 1975-1976, the thirteenth volume in the series, is now available for preorder. This one covers the halfway point of the Peanuts run. The cover of this one will have Peppermint Patty. The foreword is by Robert Smigel, the puppetry hand behind Insult the Comic Dog and the …
It’s a Discount Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
I was checking out my remainder book source, BookCloseouts, and noticed that they had some good deals on books for the impending Halloweeniday: The Great Pumpkin Strikes Again, an out-of-print kids storybook for $1.99, half off the cover price. Baby Snoopy’s Pumpkin out-of-print board book for $2.99, half off the …