Demand to see his AKC Purebred Registration Certificate!

PigpenboardCoolLikeSWe now have cover images for the two new board books coming in May, Messy Like Pigpen and Cool Like Snoopy. However, the bigger news is another new storybook coming in July: Snoopy for President! That’s right, the Simon Spotlight line is exploiting that thing that happens in America every four years – no ,not my brother’s birthday, but the Super Bowl of politics. Apparently, the country did not learn enough from Snoopy’s brief reign as Head Beagle. With the advantage of being a veteran of both World Wars and even the Revolutionary war, perhaps this black-and-white beagle stands a chance among the strays and mad dogs already vying for the position. Maybe this is the year American aligns itself not with a donkey or an elephant, but a dog!

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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 …