You Can Be Anything (but your days are numbered)
Coming in March: You Can Be Anything!, a new Peanuts kids hardcover. And now shipping are various Peanuts calendars for 2009. This year, you can choose between: Peanuts Love Is wall calendar Mini day-to-day calendar (with magentic backing and easel) Engagement diary calendar Page per day calendar Peanuts Mom’s Organizer …
Peanuts holiday boxed set
If you’re looking forward to the new Peanuts DVDs, get the boxed set. Not only do you get three DVDs (A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) for about $10 less than buying them separately, you also get them weeks before a …
Peanuts on DVD and the campaign trail
Taking advantage of the election season, the folks at Warner Home Video are moving the TV special You’re Not Elected Charlie Brown from its former role as the second feature on Great Pumpkin DVDs to its own lead role on a DVD that comes out in early October. Taking the …
That Racer X Illustrated piece
Well, I’ve got my hands on the Peanuts-covered issue of Racer X Illustrated which I mentioned earlier. It’s apparently not on the stands quite yet — I checked my local Borders yesterday, and they still had copies of the previous issue out (which means that the next issue should be …
Happiness defered is not happiness denied
The upcoming A Treasury of Happiness, collecting the material from the eight Happiness Is A Warm Puppy-style gift books, has been delayed until November (from its previous slated August release.)
Peanuts meet Dracula
A couple years back, a talented one-time collaborator of mine named Adam Rex came out with a children’s book of humorous poems about monsters, called Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. I meant to blog about that here not only because the book was very funny (which it was) but because when …
Grrrreat Pumpkin, the really extended edition
The new DVD edition of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown comes out in September. And yes, it does include a second animated special It’s Magic, Charlie Brown (which means that this time they’re not keeping with the same paired-special packaging as the previous version, which had You’re Not Elected, …
This year’s Complete Peanuts boxed set
The boxed set of The Complete Peanuts 1967-1970 has been announced for September… which is interesting, because the second volume in that set, 1969-1970, isn’t supposed to ship on its own until October. Between that and the reports (which I’ve not yet confirmed) that the boxed set will include the …
New books come out, and Nat goes to Austin
Just a quick catch-up on books now available for immediate shipping: The Peanuts Grand Piano Book Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest And the copies of The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 have actually been printed and genuinely exist, although they’ve not hit the stores yet. I got a copy just the other day, …
Two upcoming book covers
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