New releases

Contrasting holidays

I recently got the latest two of Fantagraphics small square themed strip reprints, Waiting for the Great Pumpkin and Snoopy’s Thanksgiving. What I find interesting is how different two books designed to be basically the same can be. They both reprint strips in the same format, generally one daily strip on …

Upcoming releases

The newest oldest Peanuts books

Here’s one (well, two) I wasn’t expecting: in August, British publisher Titan Books will reprint Peanuts and More Peanuts, the first two Peanuts books that were published, collecting strips from the first half of the 1950s. As far as I know, this is the first time that More Peanuts has been published in …

Upcoming releases

Peanuts and Popcorn: A Crackerjack Combination

Coming in June is Snoopy and Friends, a part of Scholastic’s Popcorn Readers series – these are books aimed at those just learning to read English. The book has two stories in it built around strip storylines, and it looks like its the one where Schroeder gets his piano stuck in a kite-eating …

Schulz/Peanuts news

Happy 64th anniversary to Good Ol’ Charlie Brown

For today’s 64th anniversary of Peanuts, the website of Time magazine takes a look at the current exhibit at the Schulz Museum.

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Golden cover

Here’s the cover to one of the 65th anniversary books, You’re Golden, Charlie Brown. He sure doesn’t look golden!

Animated Peanuts

Peanuts movie design art peek

Well, the release of the new Peanuts movie, produced by Blue Sky Studios is still about a year away. And we’ll see a small amount of design art from it in The Art of Blue Sky Studios, which drops in two weeks. But if you head over to that book’s listing …

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Everything I Need to Learn, and More!

Coming in March is a revised, redesigned edition of the Peanuts quote book Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Peanuts. And having gotten that out of the way, and finding that this first blog post in days is quite short, I’m going to be horribly exploitive of this blog …

music

Nice round Charlie Brown sounds for Christmas

If you’re worrying about the kids being unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, perhaps the new CD Lullaby Renditions of A Charlie Brown Christmas from Baby Rockstar is the thing that you need. Head on over and check out the samples. And if you’re planning a Christmas gift for an audiophile, how about …

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Psycho-economy of Charlie Brown

Coming next month for Kindle users (and preorderable now) is The Psycho-economy of Charlie Brown: Strategies for a happier society. Well, actually, it’s La psicoeconomia di Charlie Brown: Strategie per una società più felice, because the darned thing is in Italian. And (courtesy of Google Translate), this is what it’s about: Nobody …

New releases

What I got on Friday

After three straight days of receiving packages of Peanuts books, Thursday was a downer… but Friday perked me back up with a nice big case. This turned out to be my comp copies of Classic Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit, which includes my short book Classic Peanuts: Great Moments. Now, while receiving this makes …