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!

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Peanuts books all a-board!

The mail brought two new Peanuts board books this week, and the web offered up images of another, so I guess that’s the theme for the day. Cheering You On, Charlie Brown looks first at how Charlie Brown has a lot of difficulty in life, but then at how he …

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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, …