Second printing for Unseen Peanuts

CBGXtra.com is reporting a planned second printing for Unseen Peanuts, this one much smaller than the 50,000+ print run done for Free Comic Book Day (and eagerly snatched up). These new copies will be given away at comic conventions by Fantagraphics.

(And for those of you who have contacted me about getting you a copy of this book, I;m expecting to lay hands on a few copies shortly. For those who haven’t contacted me yet… I doubt I’ll have any spares from this batch.)

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Unquote alone

The warning signs about the new book Rediscovering the True Meaning of Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas”: Celebrating Christmas with a Charlie Brown Touch starts with the title, and its curious use of a single double-quotation mark. That’s part of the name every time it’s listed, whether on the …

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Candidate Snoopy

The promotion of “Snoopy for President” dates back to at least 1961 (possibly earlier, I don’t have great reference on it.) The idea is not limited to US presidential election years, but it does tend to swell then. There was not only merch but newspaper articles on it in 1968. …

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Coming to America

Remember a few months back when I got that manga biography of Schulz and it made me really happy, even thought I couldn’t read it? Well, that may be in for a change, because coming in October is Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz, The Creator of Snoopy and Peanuts. I …