What What Cartooning Really Is really looks like

The intended cover image for What Cartooning Really Is, Fantagraphics upcoming collection of interviews with Schulz, has been updated. It is no longer going to look like this:

It is now slated to look like this:

By the way, if you ordered this book from Amazon and received a cancellation of your order today, what happened was that this somehow entered the system with two different ISBN codes, so one was eliminated; the Amazon system is not smart enough to route your order to this other item. This book is still slated to come out next month, so go re-preorder now!

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