Complete Peanuts covers

Here’s the image of this year’s Complete Peanuts boxed set:

And here’s the cover for this fall’s volume 20:

Note the reveal: the introduction will be by Lemony Snicket. Who is a fictional character (but hey, Snoopy wrote an intro or two in his day), and who nonetheless authored The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story, which is one of those books I love despite, or perhaps because of, my wife’s utter repulsion by it.

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Peanuts books all a-board!

The mail brought two new Peanuts board books this week, and the web offered up images of another, so I guess that’s the theme for the day. Cheering You On, Charlie Brown looks first at how Charlie Brown has a lot of difficulty in life, but then at how he …

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

I have noted before that there seems to be a fair bit of lasting affection out there for The Peanuts Book of Pumpkin Carols, a booklet of Halloween-related lyrics for famed tunes that Hallmark put out in the 1960s and redesigned and reissued a few times. It’s clear that Chronicle Books …

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Charles Schulz – The Comic Book

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