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They’ve released this new cover image for the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday, the planned ten-volume set reprinting all of the Sunday Peanuts strips in color.

This is a common part of the process, having a cover that looks good enough to go out and get the ball rolling, but going back and revisiting it, rethinking it, and seeing what you can come up with. In the case of a series, you want to plan out a cover design that will be reusable for each of the volumes in the run. (Have you preordered your copy yet? These ain’t cheap, so the savings add up.)

FPES1or those who want to compare it to the originally revealed cover… here it is!

Meanwhile, Andrews McMeel Publishing has announced their second in their series of Peanuts strip reprints aimed at kids. Charlie Brown and Friends: A Peanuts Collection is slated for next February, five months after the first in the series, next month’s Snoopy: Cowabunga!.

Upcoming releases
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 …