Pop culture roundup: Charlton Comics is back! New Peanuts film!

Charlton Comics was always the cheap-o, low-paying #3 publisher of mainstream comics when I was growing up in the 1970s, but it also gave many later prominent creators their start. Now some of those creators are celebrating the publisher and its legacy in a new anthology title.

It started when a fan commented on a Charlton Comics Facebook group that someone should publish a new magazine, but writer Paul Kupperberg responded, and that ended up with enough artists signing on for a 44-page book – the Charlton Arrow. It got the attention of new artists, as well as veterans like Paul Kupperberg, Joe Staton and Roger McKenzie, artists who worked at Charlton Comics and went on to work on characters like Captain America, Daredevil, Batman and the Green Lantern. The collection of new stories can be ordered online starting this month, and the creators are already working on a second issue.

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A new Peanuts film, directed by Charles Schulz' son Craig and written by his son Bryan, is on the way. See the teaser below (some folks will undoubtedly hate the CGI, but what do you expect these days?) NON-SPOILERS:

"It's about a round-headed kid and his dog, and that's about as far as I'm willing to go," Craig Schulz told USA Today.