Customer Reviews

Peanuts: 2010 Day-to-Day Calendar

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I have been purchasing the Peanuts Day-to-Day calendars for years and I have never come across a repeated strip. Although Schulz passed away a decade ago he created 50-years of Peanuts cartoons, which means that there are enough daily strips to last lifetime. Given the deplorable state of comic strips these days (seriously, who can stomach The Family Circus, Marmaduke, Dennis the Menace, Close to Home, Kathy, Hagar the Horrible...?) Schulz's Peanuts will remind you of a time when comic strips were clever rather than humorless dreck phoned in by a soulless machine. I miss the days of Peanuts, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side. Do yourself a favor and pick up this calendar, you won't be disappointed.

[December 20 edit] I am bumping my rating down by 1 star because after going through this calendar I made the startling discovery that LLC Andrews McMeel Publishing has eliminated the Sunday strips and instead has combined Saturday and Sunday into one day! This means that for the same price we have been paying in previous years we are now getting 52 less cartoons and no Sunday strip. For shame, LLC Andrews McMeel Publishing.

I received my 2010 day-to-day calendar today and will be returning it tomorrow. Though each daily comic is bright and colorful, I was very disappointed in how absurdly small the comic strip is on each page of the calendar. The fonts used are also ridiculously small. There was plenty of room on the page to have produced this properly, in a larger, more readable format. Why the manufacturer did it this way is beyond me. I've purchased the Peanuts day-to-day calendar before in years past, and each comic strip was more of a "normal" size for each page. This one isn't. Awful production.

I really enjoy looking at a new strip everyday. I was happy when they went to color everyday a few years back. I gave it 4 stars because they have gotten rid of the Sunday strips which is a real bummer. I always enjoyed the Sunday strips because they often times had their own story lines and of course they were longer. Now the Saturday and Sunday strips are one. You now pay the same price for 52 less pages. Oh well.

I have been buying the Peanuts calendar for well over ten years, it brings joy to every day. This year however, I noticed that they removed all the Sunday comics, thereby reducing the calendar from 365 days to 313 days, obviously saving them money as they charge the same amount for a cheaper product. I wish that I had an alternative, it is so frustrating when companies think they can make more money by doing something like this. Shame on the publisher and manufacturer.

I thought I was getting a deal on the Box Calendar -- Unfortunately I did not read the fine print -- the Mini Calendar does nothave any cartoons on them -- just a picture and the day -- too much trouble to return so I guess I will have a calendar without cartoons for 2012. Would not recommend the calendar if anyone is hoping to read the daily cartoons!

Note: This review is for the *Kindle* version of the 2012 Peanuts daily calendar.

The 2012 Peanuts daily calendar features a cartoon strip for each day of the working week and then combines Saturday and Sunday on one page with one cartoon. So you end up with six strips per week. I'm not sure how they picked the strips, although it does seem as though they were from the same time period as several "plots" are followed over the course of January. The featured strips are amusing and often quite thoughtful.

The only problem is the formatting for the Kindle. I own a Kindle Keyboard and a Kindle Fire, and the calendar is a vastly different experience on the two instruments. The strips do not work well for the Kindle Keyboard's black and white format. The result is rather drab, depressing, and difficult to read even when one uses the zoom function. The calendar works much better on the Kindle Fire. Using the zoom function, the strip ends up at least 1/3 larger than before, which in the color format is quite nice. The font ends up a tiny bit fuzzy but basically readable. In both formats, you can take notes on the calendar pages, so one could record meetings, holidays, or important tasks to be completed.

For the Kindle Keyboard, I give it 2 stars and suggest skipping this calendar; hard core Peanuts fans should consider the calendar in another format. For the Kindle Fire, I give it 4 stars with the caveat that the strips are still imperfectly formatted.

Overall, I like this calender. the one negative for this year's calender is that the publisher has combined saturday and sunday on one page. this was not done in past years as a seperate page was set for each day.

This is the second year I've used this calendar. It is small and best of all easy to read the date each day. The cartoons are classic. I don't like calendars that mask the actual date and make it hard to read. This calendar is perfect!

I have bought the peanuts calendar for many years now and always loved this calendar and recommended it to my family and all my friends but this year for the first time I am disappointed. The face and body of Snoopy does not really look like Snoopy and also the faces of Charlie Brown, Linus, Sally do not look like themselves.
It looks like they fired everybody who was responsible for the calendar in the previous years...I still hope this is a fake calendar and the real calendar with Snoopy and Woodstock is somewhere out there...

I've been purchasing or receiving this desk-top day-to-day calendar for 7 years now. The 2010 version keeps up the same standards as in the past. This year, the pages are again in full color, the whole package, backing and pages are recyclable, if you're like me and just can't throw the pages out, the box again serves as a good storage box.

This year the publisher is including a 'Daily Extra!' on the back of each day's page. I quickly looked (because I don't want to read any of the future days before their time!) and there was a mix of word games, quotes, dates in history, tips, sudoku puzzles and word searches. I was somewhat disappointed to see none of the Daily Extra! material was Peanuts related, but that would have been my preference, not necessarily others choice.

The other thing I was surprised at was the price on Amazon of $24.00 where the U.S. price on the box is only $13.99 and today, being the day after Christmas, a lot of stores are selling 2010 calendars at 50% off.