Complete Peanuts cover

The World War I Flying Ace hits the cover of The Complete Peanuts: 1969 to 1970Complete Peanuts cover, which doesn’t ship until October (it’s not the next volume, it’s the one after that.) And as long as we’re looking at covers, here’s the one for that Peanuts Sudoku DigestPeanuts Sudoku Digest, with a bunch of strips and even more puzzles. Remember, if you preorder now, you not only lock in the current price, you’ll be shifted to any lower price that appears in the meantime… and in fact you’ll get an extra 5% discount to boot for preordering (a good reason to check out our list of upcoming books.) And you can cancel any time until the book is issued.

And as long as I have everyone here, let me give a little “hello” to all of the new folks. That post I did about Caucasian Franklin got blogged in a few key places, leading to a couple thousand extra visitors. People like the kinda weird stuff!

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Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

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Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …

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The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …