Say “Peanuts Seasonal” five times fast

Because this November was looking just far too bereft of Peanuts books coming out, Fantagraphics has added one to the list! Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron is a hardcover collection of strips focusing on ye olde World War I Flying Ace. This is part of their “Peanuts Seasonal” line which has previously been thin square hardcover books (starting with Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking), but at 200 pages this one will be about as thick as three of the previous volumes (and at a price point of twenty-five bucks, cost about as much as two-and-a-half of them.)

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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 …