Snoopy and Friends and Friends and Friends!

There is a scene in one of my favorite comic book series of all time, ‘Mazing Man, in which one of the characters sees his friend, Guido, working in a shoe store, then later that day, sees him working in a different shoe store. When Guido is confronted with the accusation that’s working on two shoe stores, he replies “Nah, that’d be stupid. I’m working in three shoe stores.” I find a parallel in that in how, in an extraordinary level of willingness to confuse people beyond the usual we’re-reusing-the-title-from-a-200year0old-Peanuts-book problem, there now look to be scheduled not two but three different English language Peanuts books shipping this year with the title Snoopy and Friends. There’s the UK-only Snoopy and Friends, a book for English language learners written by Jacquie Bloese; there’s a 24 page Little Golden Book Snoopy and Friends, listed as a Peanuts movie tie-in (which suggests that it may not just be a reprint of a Golden Book from 1990), and there’s the 14 page board book movie tie in with the enthusiastically exclamationpointed title Snoopy and Friends! (Those last two volumes are scheduled to ship the same day, September 22, making for the sort of hilarious hijinx that drives all of Hollywood’s modern Peanuts book-themed romantic comedies.)

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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! …

Upcoming releases
Coming: How to Draw Peanuts for Kids

In January, the book How to Draw Peanuts for Kids: Create Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the Gang will hit us, turning all kids into microSchulzes. I don’t yet know who is developing it — the author is listed as Charles M. Schulz, but the text of the blurb says merely …

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

Looks like we’ll be getting a couple more editions of book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas this year. One is a board book version of the 2015 Tina Gallo and Scott Jeralds adaptation that’s already been reworked before, and the other… is also a board book version of that …