Quick notes

  • I’ve been getting questions asking whether the new book Celebrating Peanuts: 65 Years is the same as Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years from six years ago. Yes, it is, it’s just the paperback edition.
  • AAUGH Blog reader John points to this Fantagraphics sale which has the small square book Waiting for the Great Pumpkin for a couple dollars less than Amazon at the moment, as well as various non-Peanuts books published by Fantagraphics.
  • Here’s a short Christian Broadcasting Network interview with Stephen J. Lind the upcoming book on Schulz’s spirituality, A Charlie Brown Religion (those of you getting the blog through email will probably have to click through to the page itself.)

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Discounts
Bargains to be had

Amazon bargain prices can disappear at a moment’s notice, so I cannot guarantee these will still be there when you click on them, but: the recent hardcover rerelease of Chip Kidd’s Only What’s Necessary is 63% off and Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator (i.e., the award-winning biography …

Upcoming releases
Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

Upcoming releases
Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …