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What the well-dressed cartoonist is drawing.

We’ve got a cover for The Great American Story of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang! (part of the History of Fun Stuff line) which comes out in just a couple of weeks. It’s an eye-catching piece, and I like it… but with a wry smile at its intentional ridiculousness. I mean, …

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Hallmark discounts

I just noticed that Hallmark is offering 20% off most of their Peanuts books, with 50% off their Easter Beagle book with the “Itsy Bitsy” figure.

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Discounts

Not to discount religion, but…

Discounts are my religion! I was just about to post about the upcoming release of a paperback edition of A Charlie Brown Religion, Stephen Lind’s deep dive into Schulz’s religiosity, when I discovered that Amazon has a few copies of the hardcover edition at 67% off the list price, or about …

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Upcoming releases

Communicative Christmas covers

Cover images have appeared for two upcoming Christmas-themed Peanuts books, and they both let us know something further about the books. What the cover for The Peanuts Guide to Christmas tells us is that this indeed a US reprint of a British book of the same name. And what the …

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The NSFW Things People Show You

I’ve got an interesting, topically-NSFW (that’s “Not Safe For Work”) image that’s relevant to this blog. I’m just posting a link to it here, rather than the image itself, so that it doesn’t pop up in people’s newsfeeds or email unexpectedly. It’s an ad that I suspect is using Peanuts …

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Classic finds

The Flying Ace’s keyring

When collecting Peanuts books, there are often times where I have to ask myself “is this a book?” One of these is an odd line of items that Hallmark out out in the 1970s, which I mentioned a couple times over the past decade. They are bound by a single …

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Animated Peanuts

There may be ad money better spent

If you go to ToysRUs.com and search for Peanuts, you get a screen like this one, bracketed with ads for The Peanuts Movie – only in theaters. Of course, The Peanuts Movie left US theaters over 10 months ago, after the last 15 theaters showing it had a final weekend where …

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A look back at the AAUGHdobon Society

When I posted this two years ago, I was already delving into the Peanuts Ford Falcon ads, starting to gather material for Complete Peanuts 26, which I was not free to talk about and at that point was not even a definite thing. Getting as many of the Ford strips …

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Upcoming releases

Celebrating Snoopy cover

As suspected, the cover for Celebrating Snoopy is designed to match the cover for the hardcover edition of Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years.

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The Big Boxes

I’m oddly happy about the fact that the boxed sets of the Italian edition of Complete Peanuts have not two volumes in them, but five, giving you a complete decade in one toss. I also rather like that this box shot is one of the images that their Amazon UK listing presents: …

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