Multicultural Peanuts

Peanuts Nos Vamos A Tokio! cover

So perhaps you thought the original graphic novel It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown! sounded like a good idea, but realized that if you read it in English, it wouldn’t really capture the feel of being in a foreign land. Well, there’s good news for you! You can now preorder Nos Vamos a Tokio, Charlie Brown!, and read the whole thing in Spanish. Problem solved.

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …

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An unauthorized? biography

In the past, I’ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the …