Cover: Complete Peanuts volume 11

Here’s the cover for this spring’s new release in the Complete Peanuts series:

The volume has an introduction by the talented Kristin Chenoweth (whose enjoyable TV series Pushing Daisies is going away, sniff!)

I hope that Santa Claus, Hannaklaus, or whatever powers that be have been good to you this holiday season… but if it’s not been going well, remember that we’re about to see the end of this bumpy year, start fresh with a new calendar. May your 2009 be filled with the pleasant sort of surprises! (At this point, things are looking a little quiet in the Peanuts book field… but there may be pleasant surprises there as well.)

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 …

Upcoming releases
2025 in Peanuts

Happy New Year, all you AAUGH Blog Readers! 2025 has come, like it or not, and it brings with it the 75th anniversary of Peanuts! Now, we’ve seen at least some attempts to play off 0f the big anniversary year since at least last summer, more than a full year …