Speaking of the Artist’s Edition

I had missed that IDW was showing around this sample page of the upcoming Peanuts Artist’s Edition, which reproduces strips directly from the original art. While doing this for a typical comic book story is quite straightforward, allowing one to create pages that are the size of the original art, it’s tricker with Peanuts, both because the dimensions of the original strips make it harder to make a book out of it, and because those dimensions varied some over the years. By dropping it on a background, as seen here, it looks a little less like a bunch of original art bound together, but should hold together nicely as a book. (Click on the image to see it much larger.)

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Offboarding

I can think of a number of times that Peanuts storybooks have been converted into board books, often with some shortening and simplification. And I can think of once or twice that the stories from board books have been included inside non-board anthologies of stories. But I can’t think of …

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How many bunny-wunnies?

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Shipping Pumpkin and Hare Krishnas

First, let me note that theĀ Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when …