Tag: peanuts
The Beat’s Weekly Toy Preview!
By Nicholas Eskey
Welcome back fellow toy-o-philes to another weekly(ish) installment of my favorite picks for newly released or soon to be released nerdy toys....
Happy 245th Birthday, Ludwig!
We're a cultured group here at Stately Beat Manor, and a lot of that classical culture comes via POP culture. Julius Caesar? Asterix. Classical music?...
31 Days of Halloween: it’s the Peanuts Studio Blog, Charlie Brown
If there is one person who loves Halloween it was Charles Schultz...or at least he loved comic strips about Halloween. His creation of The...
NYCC ’15: Abrams signings with Leguizamo, Peanuts, Adventure Time and more
MORE things to do and get signed at NYCC, with lots ofr preveiws of Abrams Spring 2016 line all at booth #2228 and 2016 Abrams...
31 Days of Halloween: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Nothing says Halloween like Charlie Brown, Linus and the Great Pumpkin. Fantagraphics, which has been publishing all of Charles Schulz's Peanuts strips in chronological order,...
SDCC 2014: Watchtower Thursday: Surfing the Tsunami Online
* We’ve won! Politicians officially open Comic-Con!
On Thursday, to mark the official opening of Comic-Con International 2014, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and San...
Uniqlo did Moomin and Tezuka
Speaking of One Piece, my wardrobe is full (a little too full, I think) of One Piece merch from the Japanese retailer Uniqlo, which...
Peter Robbins, voice of Charlie Brown, sentenced to year in jail
The Associated Press has reported that 56-year-old Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown in the "Peanuts" animated specials, was sentenced yesterday to a...
Art Wall: Cubist Thing, them Mighty Morphin’ kids and Batman- lots of Batman
Hello and welcome! We are starting a weekly art thingy and have -rather thoughtfully- set it for Friday, that interminable day where the weekend...
SDCC12: Boom! Studios: Booth #2743
Boom! Studios announces all their awesome stuff, including a very public party on Thursday evening!
Kim Thompson on "The Graphic Novel Decade"
"I think a solid core of high-selling mainstream-y genre comics would be nice, but it really hasn't happened (except for arguably the manga phenomenon,...