The Peanuts books keep a-comin’

We’re getting into the period when “75th Anniversary” books should be being announced. I don’t know if either of these will be branded that way.

Coming in May, 2025 is Happiness is Peanuts, which seems to be an attempt to capture the magic of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy-style books of the 1960s, but with fresh art provided by Robert Pope.

Coming in August, 2025 is Snoopy, the Story of My Life: The Myth, the Legend, the Beagle!

Snoopy relays everything there is to know about the World’s Most Beloved Beagle in this charming and thorough picture book memoir sure to delight fans old and new!

“[Snoopy] can do anything. He drives a Zamboni. He’s an attorney. He’s a World War I flying ace and he’s a surgeon. He’s all those things.” —Charles M. Schulz

Learn all about Snoopy’s family, his early life at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, his travels, and his first owner (not Charlie Brown!) and more in this complete history as told by Snoopy himself in the classic Peanuts comic strip.

This comprehensive guide to Snoopy also includes a travelogue and a list of some of the personas that Snoopy adopted over the years, including the World Famous Attorney, the World War I Flying Ace, the Fierce Vulture (his very first alter ego!), and the ultimate Big Man on Campus himself, Joe Cool.

This one is written by Andrew Farago, who Peanutsers will know from The Peanuts Family Album.

Upcoming releases
A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …