The new Only Necessary cover

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AAUGH Blog reader Asher kindly pointed out that I had messed up including a link to my review of the previous edition of the Chip Kidd book Only What’s Necessary, so I’ve fixed that post, and here’s the link again!

Meanwhile, we now have a front cover image for the 70th anniversary repackaging of that book, and here it is:

That new cover image is from Schulz’s letterhead in the 1960s. I don’t think it’s as cool as the previous extreme-closeup-on-Charlie-Brown cover, but it does communicate more clearly. Here’s hoping that they also clear things up by adding page numbers; it might be worth it to me to buy another copy just for that.

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The Big Book of Peanuts cover

AAUGH Blog reader D.D. managed to catch that by the time that my note went out about The Big Book of Peanuts: 1990s being on Amazon, the planned cover was already available on the publisher’s website. So here’s what you have to look forward to! Love-filled Snoopy images seems to …

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The most demand Peanuts book is coming

Collectors love sets of things. What they hate is incomplete sets. For Peanuts book collectors, this has been the most true with the The Big Book of Peanuts. This huge hardcovers, each collecting a full decades worth of Peanuts daily strips (i.e., not Sundays) were issued annually from 2013 through 2016. …

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Chef Snoopy is coming

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