Listen to me on TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte Broadcast LIVE every other Monday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio . The program will then be repeated Tuesday thru Sunday at the same time (10pm ET, 7pm PT) on Shokus Radio for the next two weeks, and then will be posted on line at our archives page at TVConfidential.net . As always, the further we go back in Hollywood...
Warner Home Video has released two Christmas specials to DVD, PEANUTS: I WANT A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN and A MISER BROTHERS CHRISTMAS . After Charles Schulz passed away in 2000, his family made a vow that they would not allow anyone else to write the characters. They came up with an idea to make a new special in 2003, I WANT A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN . The cartoon was based entirely...
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first-ever Peanuts 60th Anniversary Photo Look-A-Like Contest has entered its next exciting phase, as celebrity judges Jill Schulz (daughter of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz), country music legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, “Supernanny” Jo Frost, “America’s Next Top Model” judge and fashion photographer Nigel Barker, and KTLA news anchor...
Squint hard and you might see the frazzled heroes of the “Peanuts” cartoon strip in the latest Pixar animated feature, “Up.” So says “Up” co-director Bob Peterson, who found inspiration from Charles Schulz comic creations as a young illustrator. “My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A [...] Related...
An individual at Coca-Cola's ad agency proposes the idea of a Charlie Brown Christmas Special, again with music written by Vince Guaraldi. And so a new American institution was born... Put yourself in Lee Mendelson's position for a moment. Imagine it's 1963 and you're a television documentary producer driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, thinking about the film you're developing in collaboration...
SAN DIEGO — Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76. A longtime friend, Greg Koudoulian, says the Dorf died at a San Diego hospital on Tuesday from kidney failure. He had diabetes and had been hospitalized for about a year. Dorf, a freelance artist and comic strip letterer, founded Comic-Con in San Diego in 1970 after moving...
Now Available to Own Read Jen's Review of Peanuts 1960's Collection With Schroeder's confession that, “like everybody else, I've sold out,” Sally's decision that she doesn't want to return to school because she can't open her locker, and Charlie Brown's acknowledgment that his “anxieties have anxieties," we quickly discover that Charles Schulz's beloved Peanuts have come-of-age...
Above: Charlotte Braun , a supporting character from Charles Schulz' PEANUTS strip. She first appeared on November 30, 1954. Her final appearance was on February 1, 1955. She was never to be seen again. Comic strip characters that suddenly disappear without reason is the topic of The Mysterious Disappearance of Four Comic Book Characters at the Neatorama blog. Despite the title, it's about 4 comic...
Filed under: Outside the Lines Beloved "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz touched a lot of people over the course of his nearly six decades of professional cartooning, but I gotta say, his letter to a displeased fan shines some serious light on his interaction with readers. ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
- Is there a Pigpen in your home? How about a Joe Cool? Then Jill Schulz, daughter of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, invites you to submit your photo by Tuesday, November 3 to the 60th Anniversary Peanuts Look-a-Like Contest:
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Is there a Pigpen in your home? How about a Joe Cool? Then Jill Schulz, daughter of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, invites you to submit your photo by Tuesday, November 3 to the 60th Anniversary Peanuts Look-a-Like Contest: www.peanutsphotocontest.com. The grand-prize winner will receive an all-expenses-paid family adventure for four to Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky,...
I really liked The Far Side. Bloom County was another favorite along with Calvin and Hobbes. But their merits notwithstanding, I think there is a reason that Peanuts wasn't merely long-lived, but was superior to even the best comics of subsequent generations. Lucy. I always despised Lucy as a child. She was so pointlessly mean, so needlessly cruel. Her selfishness and narcissism were incredible; what...
Halloween is about allowing our inner child, or mischievous spirit, to come out and play. But perhaps more important than this release, Halloween is most importantly a community holiday - a social event, as witnessed by the exchange that occurs at neighbors doors or the relatively childlike joy we have in seeing a creative and colorful costume. One of those great traditions for Halloween is the Charles...
It’s 50 years this week since Charles Schulz introduced the Great Pumpkin in his Peanuts comic strip, and it’s 43 years tonight since It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was first broadcast on CBS. Every time I watch the show, I wonder how much of it goes sailing over the heads not merely of today’s [...]
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