The Complete Peanuts Character Encyclopedia

Coming this fall is The Complete Peanuts Character Encyclopedia, a hardcover guide to everyone in the Peanuts strip universe. This one is written by Andrew Farago, a fine fellow and the curator over at the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco’s respectable-and-fun showcase of the comics arts, and on this he’s working in concert with the Schulz Museum And Research Center. A forty-buck hardcover, it’s good to have something besides strip reprints, storybooks, and academic-aimed books coming up!

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Franklin on Board

While they’ve been turning a number of the many Peanuts storybooks into board books, I was not expecting this one. Yes, coming in August is a board book version of It’s Hockey Time, Franklin!, one of the few storybooks to focus on the young guy stuck with sitting adjacent to …

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Maybe this one isn’t just puffer, it’s puffEST

Hey, did you buy the Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy last year? You did?? You fool! This year they’re coming out with Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy (Revised Edition), which is bound to be so much better! In what way? Danged if I know, but.. revised, it’s like revision 2.0. …

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Peanuts books, they keep on coming

Peanuts books will continue to come in 2026, no matter what the politicians say! (Not that they’ve said anything about that, but I’m just generally mad at politicians at the moment.) May brings Be A Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, which is an abridged-for-board-book version of the storybook I reviewed back in …