Schroeder replay

Coming in October from Ballentine Books is Play It Again, Schroeder, a paperback strip collection. For those looking for strips about music (or at least about girls leaning on pianos), here you go!
The title for this, as with the title for the TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown, derive from a common mis-quote of a line from the classic film Casablanca. (Off the top of my head, I believe the correct quote is “Play it, Sam; you played it for her, you can play it for me.”) Sometimes, our images of things are created not by the things themselves, but by their mimics…

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Upcoming releases
A Big Box and a Test Email

Coming in October, it’s a bunch of books that you may already have, full of strips that you may already have in other books, but now it’s in a box! It’s Snoopy: A Big Box of Happiness, and it collects into single cardboard crate the full-color strip reprints Snoopy: Boogie Down! …

Upcoming releases
Coming: How to Draw Peanuts for Kids

In January, the book How to Draw Peanuts for Kids: Create Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Gang will hit us, turning all kids into microSchulzes. I don’t yet know who is developing it — the author is listed as Charles M. Schulz, but the text of the blurb says merely …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …