minor newsy bits

  • The upcoming new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas now has a cover. Some day, I’ll really have to do a chart of all the formats and editions that have come out under this title…
  • Speaking of A Charlie Brown Christmas book – the huge discount available on the recent board book version has gotten even huger. At the moment, it’s 64% off the cover price… plus it’s part of the buy-3-get-1 free deal. That means you can get four copies of this $7.95-cover-price book for $8.58.
  • Also available at heavy discount (56% off) and part of the buy-3-get-1 deal is the miniature edition of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, which makes a great Thanksgiving stocking stuffer. I mean, what else are you going to stuff in a Thanksgiving stocking? Besides stuffing, of course…
  • If you do go for one of those buy-3-get-1 deals, realize that the price of the fourth one doesn’t disappear from your total until you’re into the checkout process. It can be worrying
  • As suspected, the collection of the little square pictures-and-adages books under a single cover is now showing up under the title Peanuts: A Treasury of Happiness instead of the cumbersome The Peanuts Classics Treasury: The Complete “Happiness Is” Collection used earlier.
  • I wonder whether the Peanuts Sudoku Digest, that mix of Peanuts strips and puzzles which has been pushed back to an April release, will actually ship with the currently-depicted cover… one which doesn’t include the “M.” as in the usual credit for “Charles M. Schulz”.
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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …