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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Upcoming releases
A Big Box and a Test Email

Coming in October, it’s a bunch of books that you may already have, full of strips that you may already have in other books, but now it’s in a box! It’s Snoopy: A Big Box of Happiness, and it collects into single cardboard crate the full-color strip reprints Snoopy: Boogie Down! …

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book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
A portrait of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Also, a landscape.

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