The Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown

There’s BeagleHasLandedanother all-new Peanuts graphic novel heading our way this fall. From the same folks who did It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown comes The Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown!, a 96-page space travel-themed graphic novel in which Snoopy, the World Famous Astronaut, has to struggle not just with a planned trip to the moon but with the dogdish-swiping cat next door. Now, if that title might cause a small bit of book collector confusion, as The Beagle Has Landed was the title of both a Peanuts Parade strip collection and the Peanuts Classics collection that reprinted that Parade book – but that was without the “Charlie Brown!” And you may recall the title because when the directed-to-video animated Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown was being touted, Andy Beall and Bob Scott were talking about that as being the title for the next animated special, if there was one (alas, the direct-to-video animated world collapsed before that could happen.) This graphic novel comes courtesy of Bob’s talented wife Vicki Scott and the also talented (but far less Bob’s wife) Paige Braddock.

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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 …