{"id":5024,"date":"2018-04-09T07:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2018-04-08T19:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T02:40:47","slug":"a-new-peanuts-graphic-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/a-new-peanuts-graphic-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"a new Peanuts graphic novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s one that I didn&#8217;t see coming. With KaBOOM having gotten back into the business of reprinting the Peanuts comic book material, I was wondering if they would do something new, and they are&#8230; kinda. They&#8217;ve announced a graphic novelization of an existing story &#8211; specifically, the film<strong><a id=\"amznPsBmLink_9023011\" class=\"amzn_ps_bm_tl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Race-Your-Charlie-Brown-Peanuts\/dp\/1684151961\/ref=as_li_bk_tl\/?tag=aaugh-20&amp;linkId=176b7b173ca3565771031e9c213f1c4a&amp;linkCode=ktl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword=\" Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown\" data-amzn-link-id=\"176b7b173ca3565771031e9c213f1c4a\"> Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"amznPsBmPixel_9023011\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?source=bk&amp;t=aaugh-20&amp;bm-id=default&amp;l=ktl&amp;linkId=176b7b173ca3565771031e9c213f1c4a&amp;_cb=1523241413410\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>. The script adaptation is by Jason Cooper, and the art by former podcast guest Robert Pope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5025\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>The movie was turned into a book back when the 1977 movie was released, a text and animation art version. It may seem an odd choice, doing the third Peanuts movie released. It makes sense to me, though, because\u00a0<em>Race for Your Life<\/em> is the most action-filled of the four traditionally-animated Peanuts films. It should take to the comics page a bit better than page after page of spelling bees.<\/p>\n<p>As for the very idea of adapting a movie &#8211; there seemed like a growing discomfort from the Peanuts folks over originally stories being done for the comic books. By adapting the film, with its Schulz script, they can create a graphic novel while staying comfortably within the realm of &#8220;actual Schulz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This book drops in November, for about $10 in a 96-page paperback. Preorderable now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s one that I didn&#8217;t see coming. 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