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.

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On the four panel status

For more than the first three decades of Peanuts, the daily strip was always four panels… well, no, that’s not quite 100% true, as I think of the August 31, 1954 daily strip of Patty jumping rope, but even that had panel breaks at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks …

Upcoming releases
Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

Upcoming releases
Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …