An apology

Now shipping

EasrBThe blog’s been a little dry lately. Sure, I try to put up what I hope are interesting odd things like the piece on the person who provided Lucy’s drawing for Snoopy and “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night”, or yukking it up a bit about the plethora of the books with the title Snoopy and Friends. But when I went to steer someone to the blog the other day, I realized that the front page was filled up with all of the more mechanical taks of this blog – announcement of upcoming books, covers for already-announced books, some basic descriptors of the latest books to arrive, mentioning which books have started to ship. (Toward that end: the strip collection You’re Golden, Charlie Brown has started to ship, and here’s the cover for next year’s Easter Beagle adaptation.) Add to that that a lot of my Peanuts efforts are focused on a project that won’t be announced for months, so I can’t show you some of the cool stuff I’ve been looking at. So my apologies go out to anyone who feels it’s all been a little dry lately. I’ll try to keep finding things I can share. Stick with me, folks!

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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …