A collection of some Peanuts/Snoopy/Charles Schulz items from April 2024. The 2024 Major League Baseball season brings with it Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Woodstock bobbleheads in in team colors and names. Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, and St. Louis Cardinals have promoted their flavor of Peanuts bobbleheads. The images I chose are from […]
King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, has promoted Carla Silva to senior vice president, general manager, and head, global licensing [emphasis added]. Silva, a seasoned veteran in the consumer products licensing industry and an expert in brand development, brings over two decades of […]
‘Tis the season. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and Comics Kingdom is decking the halls with a special Holiday Collection that’ll make your spirits zing faster than sleigh bells on Christmas Eve! The Comics Kingdom Shop has an assortment of ornaments, mugs, posters, and clothing with Holiday themes.**********It is also the season for the […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith recovering from heart attack To our friends and fans: Jeff Smith is recuperating from a cardiac arrest, which he suffered on Sunday [August 13]. There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book tour this year. Our apologies to his fans who […]
Dana Summers was too young for the originals, perhaps, like many of us, he became a fan later. © Tribune Content Agency/Dana Summers; © EC Comics Gary Shapiro retired from KUSA-TV after nearly 50 years with the station.Rather than a gold watch he got something better, a Drew Litton original.Watch the presentation with Drew and […]
Snoopy [is] scheduled to lift-off during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 29. If all goes to plan they’ll flyby the Moon and eventually return to Earth in the Orion spacecraft 42 days later. This won’t be Snoopy’s first trip to space, having orbited Earth in a Space […]
Deadline breaks the news: CBS has put in development JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley (The Best Man) will pen the TV adaptation, which hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS Studios. Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, JumpStart is set in Philadelphia […]
When you think of great athletes no one tops Charlie Brown. Converse has teamed up with one of the most iconic comic strips for its next sneaker collaboration … the shoe company has teamed up with Peanuts in spring ’22 to deliver a new footwear and apparel capsule that will hit shelves before month’s end. […]
The misadventures of Big Nate are coming to Paramount+. The all-new animated series from Nickelodeon Animation Studio is based on the best-selling children’s books and comic strip written and drawn by acclaimed author and cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Big Nate © Lincoln Peirce The show will feature a brand new story set in the ‘Big Nate’ […]
Seems it is the season of Peanuts. Yeah , all those TV specials – but also…Well, other special videos.Beyond The Scenes is a Daily Show extra, and this one discusses Franklin as the Black representative in the Peanuts. Host Roy Wood Jr. talks with Daily Show writer Josh Johnson and comics creator Robb (“JumpStart”) Armstrong […]
From a King Features Syndicate press release: King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, is growing its global publishing program under the direction of publishing director Christina Nix Lynch to develop new partnerships for original content. The expansion includes new territories, titles, formats and […]
The character watch is simple enough to define … It’s simply nothing more, nor less, than a watch with a cartoon or other character on the dial, and although I can’t look at any character watch that doesn’t have moving character hands without feeling disappointed, the truth is that there are millions of character […]
King Features’ Classic Comics for Middle Graders © King Features Syndicate; Studio MDHR; King Features Syndicate King Features, owner and licensor of a library of classic comic strips, is expanding its global book publishing activities beyond reprint collections, including into original YA and middle grade titles featuring contemporary characters spun off from the originals. Publishers […]
From NorthJersey.com: Assemble New York Giants fans: the G-Men are officially joining the Marvel Universe. The New York Giants are teaming up with Marvel for an Avengers-inspired crossover this season that is being billed as an “integrated collaboration” that will draw inspiration straight from the comics and thrust Big Blue into the world of iconic […]
Journalism and beer. Beer and journalism. Philosophically, the two pair just about as good as anything. To that end, Fisher is excited to announce that ‘Transparency’ American pale ale, a beer brewed in collaboration with the @sltrib, is on tap and for sale in cans. Legendary Tribune cartoonist, @bagleycartoons, designed the label. Pat Bagley tweeted.