a peek at Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz

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Hey, first I got a sneak peek, now I can give you one! Here’s ten pages from the upcoming book PEANUTS: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, which you can preorder by clicking on that title there. And you probably should. Even this sample shows you such cool cartoonists as Raina Telgemeier (whose YA graphic novels have been known to take up a most of a New York Times Best Seller chart), Mo Willems (who rocks the kiddie book world with such titles as Knufflebunny and the Elephant & Piggie series that are regular library grabs around here) and Stan Sakai (who has been getting vast respect for his Usagi Yojimbo samurai series for decades.) Click on any page to enlarge it to REALLY BIG.Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_Cover Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-7 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-11 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-12 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-13 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-16 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-17 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-18 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-19 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-22 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-26 Peanuts_TributeCharlesSchulz_HC_PRESS-27

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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 …