This Week In “I Bet That’s Not Licensed”

There’s been a sudden spate of print-on-demand Peanuts titles that are setting off my “doesn’t look licensed” radar.

Let’s see: There’s this coloring book:

It it’s out-of-ratio cover doesn’t trigger your suspicion, there’s the fact that its descriptor actually calls it “(Unofficial Snoopy Book)”, as if that makes it a-okay! (The back cover has an ad for a similar Star Wars coloring book.)

And then we get to the notebooks!

And then there are these “Snoopy” books that can likely get away without a license, because it’s not-that-Snoopy.

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