Cover changes

Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. Friends coverI Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when reprinted in the UK, as visitors to the Museum of Odd Peanuts Books should recall. Also scoring a new cover is ChristmasChristmas is Together Time cover is Together Time.

And while I have you here, let me remind you that just a few days remain to enter our contest and win yourself a set of Italian editions of The Complete Peanuts. We have some fine entries already, but we can always use more.

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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …