Will Charlie Brown finally make the cover of a Wendy’s book?

It looks like the round-headed kid will be locked out of the cover spot for the Wendy’s Kids’ Meal books for the eight month in a row, as the title for the new book (due in about a week) is Into the Sky with the Flying Ace. That gives him just two more chances to hit the cover before this run of books is over, with the last two new books being released October 10th and November 14th. When you see a shop with the new line of Kids’ Meals toys (based around Spaulding balls), then the new book should be available.

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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 …