What Complete Peanuts and the Oscars have in common

If you tune in to the Oscars tomorrow night, you’ll see Alec Baldwin co-hosting things and introducing people.

And if you like seeing Mr. Baldwin introducing, then you’ll be happy this September, when volume 14 of The Complete Peanuts appears, as he provides the introduction there as well. It’s available for preorder now, as is the boxed set which contains volumes 13 and 14.

As always, if you want to see what Peanuts books are available for preorder, you can stop by our list of upcoming books.

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 …