Today is the 75th anniversary of the day a comic strip called Peanuts by someone named Charles M. Schulz first appeared in, at first, just a handful of newspapers around the country. It eventually became the most popular comic strip in the history of mankind…and that's putting it mildly. As you may know, I have a book coming out — apparently already for sale by some vendors — with an official release date of next week. It looks like this…
The cheapest place to buy it is apparently Amazon and here's the link that will enable you to do that. I'm pretty pleased with it.
Your Internet and this blog will be cluttered the next month or two with interviews and podcasts and publicity about it. For instance, Forbes magazine has this interview with me which is pretty good except that it makes it sound like I picked out all the strips in the book. I did not. A whole committee listed in the book made the selections and I was but one voter.
And here's a podcast with an hour of me talking about the book…and some other things. It's John Siuntre's popular Word Balloon and I've promised to return another time soon so John can ask me about other aspects of what he thinks I've done. There will be a lot more podcasts and links on this blog in the coming weeks as I make the rounds of the Internet talking Peanuts…