A box of squares

Upcoming releases

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 strips
  • Snoopy’s Thanksgiving — Thanksgiving strips (yes, I know you could figure that out.)
  • Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking — reprints two stories that had appeared in women’s magazines in the 1960s, and hadn’t been reprinted since until the original edition of this (which I compiled) came out. Since then, the stories have wound up in Complete Peanuts 26… but I still think it’s a pretty cool little book.

The list price for this is $29.99 — six bucks a book, not bad. Be prepared to see the price of books go up; most mass-produced books are printed overseas, so if the upcoming administration follows through with their tariff plans, cost will go up. (And yes, even if they switched to US printing plants, costs would go up; there’s a reason that they print overseas)

Angle shot of the box set, with Snoopy and Woodstock dancing on grass on the cover.

Upcoming releases
Destined to blow up

Puffer Jacket Snoopy is a thing… enough of a thing that I’ll be discussing an item that only barely qualifies for this blog (it comes with a book… a tiny book of stickers.) Amazon is now listing for October release a Desktop Inflatable Puffer Jacket Snoopy. It’s one of the …

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The Return of What’s Necessary

Coming in April is a reissue of Only What’s Necessary, Chip Kidd’s second book on the art of Peanuts, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the strip. (My review of the original 2015 edition is here.) For those keeping track, this is the third cover for this book. Here are the …

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Covers to coming things

It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting …