- Another Christmas, another 2-volume box set of Fantagraphics’ “The Complete Peanuts”. With the release of the strips from 1977 and ’78, the series now covers the time from when my parents got married, through the first full calendar year after I graduated from college.
- Time Magazine has an interview with Lee Mendelson, the producer of the “Peanuts” cartoons.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2039669,00.html
- With Monte Schulz’s new book, “The Last Rose of Summer”, being published soon, here’s something of interest that Monte co-wrote with his dad — the TV movie, “It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown”, from 1988, starring Monte’s kid sister Jill.
Category: Charles M. Schulz
The all-time greatest comic strip
New Monte Schulz interview
“The Last Rose of Summer“, the follow-up to Monte Schulz’s wild, rollicking novel “This Side of Jordan”, should be out in a couple-few of weeks. Assuming your browser supports inline frame video, you can watch Monte being interviewed by Fred Klein on Literary Gumbo.
88 years, 1 day
The Beeb on Sparky
It’s hard to believe it’s already been three years since the controversial biography Schulz and Peanuts, by David Michaelis. You have until next Tuesday to listen to a BBC Radio 4 feature on Charles M. Schulz.
I’m a bit surprised to hear Jeannie say, “David did a marvelous job…” Russell T. Davies, who brought Doctor Who back from hiatus, chimes in with the factoid that long before the Tardis, Snoopy’s doghouse was much bigger inside than it appeared outside.
It’s not Halloween without…
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is starting right now on ABC. Will Charlie Brown kick the football? Will the Great Pumpkin visit Linus? Of course not! And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
If you missed the Great Pumpkin tonight, don’t worry, it’s on again Friday night at 8 ET.
Sparky, we really miss you
A 60 Minutes interview with Charles M. Schulz from 1999.