As noted here yesterday Lee Mendelson Film Production is suing entities that illegally used recordings of Vince Guaraldi music specifically created for Peanuts specials. Part of Stephen Colbert’s finale last night included his band playing Peanuts music with Colbert then worrying whether that would incite a lawsuit against CBS. At the three minute ten second […]
According to The Independent, Lee Mendelson Film Productions has filed four lawsuits against for entities who allegedly violated copyright in using music without permission. The four entities are the Interior Department, Heritage Auctions, Buckle-Down Inc., GameMill Entertainment. According to the lawsuits, the Interior Department allegedly used Vince Guaraldi’s O Tannenbaum in social media posts and […]
Apple TV has announced several new upcoming Peanut features. Season two of “Camp Snoopy” will debut in June, a new special “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” will premiere at the end of July, and the Peanuts classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” will debut in […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for March 2026 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.A few more March releases before the month is gone and a couple special deals. The Complete […]
Surprise Scrolling down the feed there was a shock to the comics identification system. Yes, I recognized the pair as Henry and Alice Mitchell but boy were they looking different. A new artist for Dennis the Menace! Continuing the scroll the “new” artist was Scott Ketcham who for a decade and a half has been […]
Musical Chairs Seven weeks plus two strips equal nine creators.Not yet 50 days into the new year and Gil Thorp has had three different artists (Rachel Merrill, Jason Margos, Louie Chin) drawing the coach’s and his family’s melodramatic story. Over at Dick Tracy there have been three writers (Mike Curtis, Matthew K. Manning, Eric Costello) […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for February 2026 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. Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 6 by Dan Barry A must-have for Flash Gordon fans, and […]
Last Sunday’s Wizard of Id became the topic of an Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial (or here): This past weekend, The Wizard of Id got political. Or not. You might have seen the strip Sunday–a whole strip dedicated to . . . We’re not sure. What was it trying to say? Epstein! … was some folks’ […]
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 […]