In honor of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strip launching on October 2 in 1950, here’s a quick tribute to Schulz that I commissioned from Andrew Pepoy a couple years ago. It was a gift for my daughter Lucy, named after Peanuts’ Lucy Van Pelt, and co-starring our one-eyed pug Morty in place of Snoopy.
The image was based on this strip, which was also the name of a Peanuts book I got long ago at a Scholastic book fair.
In other “early October” news, a reminder that the 1978 Marvel Comics calendar lines up with 2023’s dates, so it’s okay to hang it on the wall once again, the days and dates match perfectly. October features a great image by George Perez and Pablo Marcos, too.
All of which is also a reminder that my book that collects all of these great calendars into a deluxe 13” x 13” hardcover book written by me, introduced by Roy Thomas, designed by Shawn Lee, and edited by Charlie Kochman is up for pre-order now and coming your way in January 2024 from Abrams ComicArts.
And as a final plug, as I detailed in last Friday’s newsletter, I’ll be a guest panelist at tomorrow night’s DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING PROJECTS: PITCHING YOUR PROJECT IN A LARGE IP AND REBOOT WORLD panel.
Well the Marvel calendar book is going on my Christmas list!