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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!.

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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

It wasn’t that long ago that we had no comics-format biographies of Charles M. Schulz. Now we have the manga biography and the series-of-strips biography (ooh, steeply discounted at the moment)… and coming December, we have just a basic comic book biography. Tribute: Charles M. Schulz is from Tidal Wave, …

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Not Peanuts, but not utterly not Peanuts

I saw a comics writer talking about a new project where he was taking some inspiration from Peanuts – as well as some from other sources — to do a story about a comic strip creator who is bringing his strip to an end, in a way with deep personal …