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The War on Snoopy

I subscribe to the print edition of The Onion, which is America’s Finest (made-up) News Source. This is actually a paper with a long history, but switched to web only for a while. When they came back to print, I jumped on board to help fund this very special outlet that …

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Schulz/Peanuts news

Police vs. Peanuts on Parade

Peanuts ends up in the news in strange ways at times. There was a Snoopy float in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade this year…. but everyone on the float got kicked off by the cops. Why? Well, as you may know, at Mardi Gras the folks on the floats …

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General

Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

There’s been a little editing back-and-forth over at Wikipedia about what is put in the “nationality” field for the various Peanuts kids. Thing is, in what is considered absolute canon — the strip itself — this question is never actually answered. Most of the time that you see the word …

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New releases

Shiny edges

So I got the new board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. And, well, it is what it is, a board book edition of a previously-published adaptation. I’m not sure full episode adaptations are absolutely ripe for board books, simply because they’re too long, too much text, for …

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book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas

Review catchup

I apologize for the lack of reviews in a while. It’s my own fault… and the fault of that new Hallmark edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas which interacts with a stuffed animal. “That would be a great review to do as a video”, thought I. But videos take time to …

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Now shipping

Little Folks now available

My publishing work, my curiosity, and my interest in the work of Charles M. Schulz are not three separate things; they all meld together in various ways. For a long time, I only knew of the newspaper comic strip Little Folks by Tack Knight because Tack’s trademark on the title kept …

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Discounts

A Charlie Brown Christmas discount

I am ashamed to say that I’ve had this year’s Hallmark edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas sitting in my living room waiting to be reviewed for months, amidst my hectic life. It was hoping to do a video review (and I may still). But had I known I was going …

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Schulz/Peanuts news

Peanuts ownership changes

For those who like to keep track on big picture Peanuts business, there’s been a shift in ownership of Peanuts Holdings LLC, the owners of the key Peanuts intellectual property. Since 2018, the ownership has been split between the Schulz family, who owned 20%; WildBrain, who owned 41%, and Sony …

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Animated Peanuts

A couple pops shy of a fun book; and shalom noel

Last year, in my too-completist quest for Peanuts books, I got the Snoopy Candy Fun Book, a box with a few puzzles under a flap, plus stickers and ten lollipops. Today, I was ina. store that had these, and ao I pulled up my old post to make sure that …

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General

Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you.

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