signed and numbered Warm Blanket graphic novels

Those of you in the San Francisco Bay area can head over to WonderCon, which in my experience is a fairly good comics convention (I shan’t be there this year, though.) And if you’re there on Saturday, you can stop by the Boom Studios booth and buy yourself one of 100 numbered copies of the hardcover Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown graphic novel adaptation, signed by artists Bob Scott and Vicki Scott. I don’t know whether there’s any printed differences in these copies, or whether the “edition”-ness is all in the signatures, but they’re charging just the cover price – $19.99 – for these copies. They go on sale at 2 PM, and stay on sale until 4 or until supplies run out, whichever comes first. The booth number is 415. Tell them Nat Gertler sent you, and they’ll… well, they’ll probably look at you funny, that’s about it. Do it anyway.

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 …

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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 …