Beatles, Peanuts, and Me
Christmas memories, 1968 — The White Album and $1 Peanuts books.
Christmas memories, 1968 — The White Album and $1 Peanuts books.
Charlie Brown pitches for the Red Sox! Sort of. Tomorrow at Fenway Park in Boston will be Peanuts Night.
Craig Schulz says there’s a new Peanuts movie coming, slated for the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas in 2015.
The 1975-to-1976 volume of “The Complete Peanuts” has a thoughtful and sincere appreciation of Charles M. Schulz, in a foreword by cartoon comedy bad boy Robert Smigel. His “TV Funhouse” series began on “The Dana Carvey Show”, before moving to “Saturday Night Live”. Smigel’s outrageous parody of 70’s Saturday morning cartoons, “The Ambiguously Gay Duo”, … Continue reading Peanuts and nut cases
The Daily Cartoonist reports that ABC-TV has signed a five-year contract to continue airing the Peanuts holiday specials. Which is good, because ten years after moving from CBS, I still need more time to get used to them being on ABC!
An outfit called Iconix Brand Group will own 80% of ‘Peanuts’, and the family Charles M. Schulz will have 20%, in a deal that acquires the licensing unit of United Features/Media that apparently includes the licensing of ‘Dilbert’.