Upcoming complete Peanuts cover

We interrupt this run of posts on fast food board books with these breaking news:

The cover to The Complete Peanuts volume 16, shipping this fall, will look like this:

We return you now to our usual nattering. (And yes, there is another post about board books on the way, probably later today! Will it be information on another book in the series? Or will it be more drivel about measuring  frozen dessert value in terms of calories per penny? Or something else? Stay tuned in to find out!)

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 …