Cover: Complete Peanuts volume 11

Here’s the cover for this spring’s new release in the Complete Peanuts series:

The volume has an introduction by the talented Kristin Chenoweth (whose enjoyable TV series Pushing Daisies is going away, sniff!)

I hope that Santa Claus, Hannaklaus, or whatever powers that be have been good to you this holiday season… but if it’s not been going well, remember that we’re about to see the end of this bumpy year, start fresh with a new calendar. May your 2009 be filled with the pleasant sort of surprises! (At this point, things are looking a little quiet in the Peanuts book field… but there may be pleasant surprises there as well.)

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