Pumpkins of the future!

I just got caught up covering this year’s Halloween books, and it’s already time to start talking about next year’s! Baby Snoopy’s Pumpkin, a board book for the wee ones, comes out in August of aught-five.

Before that, we get The Peanuts Guide To Life from Running Press, the same folks who’ve published the recent mini hardback adaptations of the animated specials A Charlie Bronw Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I don’t yet know what this is, although the title would suggest that it’s not an animated adaptation and the pricing would suggest it’s not a mini book.

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Destined to blow up

Puffer Jacket Snoopy is a thing… enough of a thing that I’ll be discussing an item that only barely qualifies for this blog (it comes with a book… a tiny book of stickers.) Amazon is now listing for October release a Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy. It’s one of the …

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The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

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Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …