Review: Complete Peanuts 1961-1962
Coming next month is The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 (or “Volume 6” for those who count them that way). I’m not going to bother trying to tell you whether you want it or not. I mean, it’s the next volume of The Complete Peanuts; is it really a question? Packed behind …
new Peanuts cartoon permiere
For those of you in the Santa Rosa, California area, or obsessive Peanuts animation fans from other areas: the new Peanuts special Bully (the last one Schulz worked on, about playing marbles) will have its world premiere at the Schulz Museum on Saturday, October 21. During the day, they’ll be …
Review: Peanuts Lunchtime Cookbook
The first thing that jumps out at you about the Peanuts Lunchtime Cookbook is that all three words of the title are compound words, made my combining two shorter words. Oh, okay, it may not be the first thing to jump out at you, but I’m a nerd boy. This …
That Schulz/Mauldin collaboration
Whenever someone says that no one besides Schulz drew the Peanuts newspaper strip, some nitpicky fan like myself is apt to add a caveat about the 1998 Veterans Day strip, signed “Schulz and my hero Bill Mauldin”, in which Snoopy meets Mauldin’s classic wartime characters Willie & Joe, favorites of …
Making a Great Pumpkin
We’ve finally got the cover for next month’s new book on the making of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Now available for preorder (at a discount, of course!) Despite what Amazon is listing now, expect it mid-month.
Nat at the Worldcon
I know we have some science fiction fans in our readership. I will be at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, CA this coming weekend. On Saturday you can catch me at either of my two panel appearances: 10:00 AM, 60-90 minutes, SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING 4:00 PM, 60-90 minutes, …
Reviewlet: Peanuts birthday book
Sometimes, it seems a waste to write a whole new review. So as my review for the pretty gift book Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday, just reread my earlier review of Don’t Give Up, Charlie Brown. It’s largely the same thing – Peanuts art and thematic quotes, although this time …
Obscure Schulz golfing booklet
Some of you may remember that when I announced the publication of It’s Only a Game, the collection of Schulz’s non-Peanuts syndicated newspaper cartoon from the late ’50’s, I stated that none of these cartoons had ever been in a book before. Well, it’s a good thing I said “book”, …
A clarification, a correction, a comment, and a coming-now book
Some quick notes: Some of you seem to have gotten the wrong end of the stick with my announcement of the book Schulz’s Youth. When I describe the book as containing teenager cartoons, I mean they’re cartoons Schulz did about teenagers, not ones he drew when he was a teenager. …
Pig Pen and Crush covers
Here’s a first look at the covers to two new Peanuts books, coming in January and March, respectively. The first is strips about Charlie Brown and the Little Red Haired Girl, and the second is the adventures of Pig Pen or Pig-Pen, depending on which strip you read. Click through …