Foreign Kindle editions

ItalianOne of the interesting things about ebooks is that they break down one of the two barriers to international distribution – an ebook generally costs nothing to send across national lines. (The other limitation is contractual; book contracts often limit the territories in which a book can be sold.) We’re seeing that with Peanuts e-books. So you can get such books as the Italian strip collection Fortunatamente studio un pezzo per cui posso suonare intorno al suo naso! or the German edition of the fifth volume of the Peanuts comic book stories (hey, that’s got some of my work in it!) There used to be US editions of Peanuts books in foreign languages mainly for students who were learning the language; I suppose this could meet that same goal.

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

I have noted before that there seems to be a fair bit of lasting affection out there for The Peanuts Book of Pumpkin Carols, a booklet of Halloween-related lyrics for famed tunes that Hallmark put out in the 1960s and redesigned and reissued a few times. It’s clear that Chronicle Books …

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Charles Schulz – The Comic Book

It wasn’t that long ago that we had no comics-format biographies of Charles M. Schulz. Now we have the manga biography and the series-of-strips biography (ooh, steeply discounted at the moment)… and coming December, we have just a basic comic book biography. Tribute: Charles M. Schulz is from Tidal Wave, …

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Not Peanuts, but not utterly not Peanuts

I saw a comics writer talking about a new project where he was taking some inspiration from Peanuts – as well as some from other sources — to do a story about a comic strip creator who is bringing his strip to an end, in a way with deep personal …