{"id":5702,"date":"2011-03-23T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?page_id=5702"},"modified":"2015-11-09T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T22:23:41","slug":"staff-picks-happiness-is-a-warm-blanket-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?page_id=5702","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Peanuts_Happiness_HC\"Like most people my age, I grew up reading Charles Schulz’s Peanuts<\/i> comic strip every day and watching the Charlie Brown<\/i> animated specials on CBS. Though Linus’ brother Rerun and I debuted at roughly the same time and I’ve long been fond of the little kid, it was always Charlie Brown I identified with — he flies kites, I fly kites; he loves a little red-haired girl, I definitely<\/i> love redheads; he can’t seem to catch a break, my life seems like an unending sequence of mishaps. I even have a yellow-striped t-shirt, just like Charlie Brown.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, BOOM! Studios announced that they were rebranding their acclaimed kids comics line as "kaboom!" and the retitled imprint would debut with a brand-new Peanuts<\/i> graphic novel — Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown!<\/i> Even though Schulz passed away in 2000 and no new Peanuts<\/i> strips have been produced, Happiness is a Warm Blanket<\/i> is Schulz through and through; Schulz’s son Craig worked with Pearls Before Swine<\/i>‘s Stephan Pastis to adapt several classic Peanuts<\/i> storylines into a new animated special, and now that animated special is in turn adapted into the first Peanuts<\/i> graphic novel! The artwork by Bob Scott, Vicki Scott, and Ron Zorman evokes the look of Schulz’s work, circa 1962, creating a story that would not feel out of place alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Peanuts<\/i> is in good hands with kaboom!, and Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown!<\/i> makes me feel like a kid again, reading Peanuts<\/i> every day in the newspaper and flying kites on a warm spring day.<\/p>\n

Originally published in <\/i>Diamond PREVIEWS, April 2011<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most people my age, I grew up reading Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip every day and watching the Charlie Brown animated specials on CBS. Though Linus’ brother Rerun and I debuted at roughly the same time and I’ve long been fond of the little kid, it was always Charlie Brown I identified with —Continue reading “Staff Picks: Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":29360,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5702\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}