Tagged as: peanuts

December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials

I bought my fair share of mass market paperbacks (mmpb) in my youth: classics, science fiction, detective, World War Two, and, of course, comicbacks. These books have declined in sales and will be much harder to find as Readerlink, the largest distributor in North America, is reportedly stopping distribution of them at the end of the […]

Todd Spangler for Variety reports: Sony is paying more than a few peanuts to get majority ownership of Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts franchise featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown and more. Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) announced that they entered into a definitive agreement with Canadian media company WildBrain to indirectly acquire all […]

Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for November 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, vol. 12 by Milton Caniff The saga continues in Terry and […]

ReturnsNote that regular Gil Thorp artist Rachel Merrill has returned to the strip this week, not to universal acclaim.The GoComics Newsletter informs us that a half dozen cartoonists and their comic strips have returned. After brief hiatuses, these creators have returned to GoComics and are actively updating their comics at least once a week. Let’s […]

We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when Linus and Schroeder were still toddlers, before they hit the cutoff age where Peanuts characters stopped growing.However, it’s like Star Wars in that things are “canonical” rather than […]

There were so many celebratory articles about the 75th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts we couldn’t possibly report on all of them, I mean even Jeopardy had a Peanuts category on October 2! And to prove the comic strip’s popularity every answer was questioned correctly. Here are some more write-ups about Charlie Brown and […]

Exclusive to The Daily Cartoonist is Patrick McDonnell‘s Introduction to The Essential Peanuts.“A Bringing of Happiness” – Introduction by Patrick McDonnellPeople like to celebrate time and numbers—the 75th anniversary of the world’s greatest comic strip, fifty years of one man’s genius, and his nearly 18,000 combined dailies and Sundays. That’s a lot of hours, paper, […]

October 2, 1950, 75 years ago today, began what is inarguably one of the greatest comic strips of all time.Charles M’ Schulz’s Peanuts is celebrating its 75th anniversary and some publications are taking notice.How Charlie Brown Captured the American PsycheCatharine Hughes at The New Statesman gives a brief history and social impact of the comic […]

Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part III Here in Part III, we will identify the last of the three contributors to the 1960 set. My identification will be based entirely on stylistic comparisons, as I do not have any external corroboration that the artist I will name ever worked in any capacity for […]

Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; F. Opper, R. & G. Dirks and J. Swinnerton jam; the Leffingwells’ Little Joe; McDonnell’s Mutts and Schulz’s Peanuts; and Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich and Flash Gordon makes some three. Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art editor and creator of the magazine’s iconic mascot, the butterfly enthusiast Eustace Tilly. […]

Featuring Beetle Bailey (now updated), Peanuts (this too has an update), Hogan’s Alley, Nemo, Comics Revue, Extra Ordinary Comics, MazeToons, Popeye, and I Hate Fairyland with corresponding cartoonists.75 Years of Beetle Bailey “Beetle Bailey” is the rare popular culture touchstone that has been embedded in daily life since its debut on Sept. 4, 1950. CT […]

With Alfredo P. Alcala, Jim Keefe, Stephan Pastis, Charles M. Schulz, Ricardo (Liniers) Siri, Bill Watterson, Brian Walker, and Scott Jerolds.An Alfredo Alcala Centenary This is a days late acknowledgement of Filipino cartoonist Alfredo P. Alcala’s birth day 100 years ago. His comic book art in the Philippines and in the U.S. is justly acclaimed, […]

While Peanuts celebrates its Diamond Anniversary Hallmark marks a 65 year partnership with the comic strip.My Facebook has been inundated with ads for unlicensed Peanuts shirts – it didn’t help that I clicked on one of the links, ensuring even more intrusions. This stuff is “not sold in stores” and “only available for a limited […]

Last weekend saw the release of “the first Peanuts musical in 35 years” on Apple TV+. A summary from Parents: Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical centers on siblings Charlie Brown and Sally, who are heading to summer camp; Charlie Brown is a fan, but Sally isn’t so sure. However, they learn that their camp is […]