Complete Peanuts cover

The World War I Flying Ace hits the cover of The Complete Peanuts: 1969 to 1970Complete Peanuts cover, which doesn’t ship until October (it’s not the next volume, it’s the one after that.) And as long as we’re looking at covers, here’s the one for that Peanuts Sudoku DigestPeanuts Sudoku Digest, with a bunch of strips and even more puzzles. Remember, if you preorder now, you not only lock in the current price, you’ll be shifted to any lower price that appears in the meantime… and in fact you’ll get an extra 5% discount to boot for preordering (a good reason to check out our list of upcoming books.) And you can cancel any time until the book is issued.

And as long as I have everyone here, let me give a little “hello” to all of the new folks. That post I did about Caucasian Franklin got blogged in a few key places, leading to a couple thousand extra visitors. People like the kinda weird stuff!

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

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Charles Schulz – The Comic Book

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Not Peanuts, but not utterly not Peanuts

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