An additional Great American Adventure

The three history-oriented storybooks in the Peanuts Great American Adventure series that were one supposed to come out this year have been sliding all over the schedule; at the moment, one is now supposed to be landing in January with the other two in June. But add to that June list a previously-unannounced entry in Hooray for Liberty, Charlie Brown! It’s currently announced ship date is June 28… which seems a little odd, as the title suggests that it’s a patriotic book, and if it’s being released for the Independence Day holiday (which falls on the same day as the Fourth of July next year), one would normally want to release it more than a week in advance.

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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 …