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!

Upcoming releases
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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …