Compact Happiness

Coming in August is a book that Amazon calls The Peanuts Classics Treasury: The Complete “Happiness Is” Collection but which the publisher’s website refers to as Peanuts: A Treasury of Happiness. Presumably, this is a collection of all the content from Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Security is a Thumb and a Blanket, Christmas is Together Time, I Need All The Friends I Can Get, Happiness Is A Sad Song, Suppertime, Home is on Top of a Doghouse, and Love is Walking Hand in Hand (and I just scared myself by typing all of those off of the top of my head — the whole point of making the AAUGH.com collectors’ guide was so that I wouldn’t have to carry stuff like that in my head, dadgummit!) It’s a hardcover, with a dust jacket, listed at $19.95 but with a substantial discount on your preorder.

And if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that the listing on the publisher’s website will be the title. It’s more graceful, and avoids the confusingly overused Peanuts Classics tag. But time shall tell.

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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 …