Tonight Allison, Eva and I enjoyed what I hope to be a tradition every year. We watched “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!” (aff link). I love Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang. Charles M Schulz is one of my heros too. So, sharing this movie with Eva and seeing how much she loved it was wonderful.
I’ve been reading Charles Schulz’s book Around the World in 45 years. It is a collection of strips to commemorate his 45 year of drawing Peanuts. While the book is not outstanding, I would have liked more insight into each strip rather than a select few in the beginning, it does have charm. The charm is in the comic strips. I am a huge Peanuts fan and have begun to compile my own collection of the Fantagraphics collected years of strips. I even got a couple more books from Allison this past Christmas.
As far as Around the World in 45 years is concerned I really enjoyed the foreword by Lynn Johnston who writes For Better or For Worse. I also liked some of the explanations by Schulz about the comics in the beginning of the book. I’m halfway through the comics themselves. All in all I like it.