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Added to the pending Peanuts books is Here Comes Charlie Brown! A Peanuts Pop-Up. Is it a pop-up book? Yes! Is it a strip collection? That depends on your definition of the word “collection”. If it is, it’s literally strip collection, in that it collects a single strip. That’s right, the whole book is a pop-up version of one strip, the very first Peanuts strip. This sounds like a cool idea, but then, I’m the guy who did an entire 14 minute podcast episode just about that strip.

Cool, yes, but if this turns out to be volume 1 of 17,897, I’m gonna go broke!

(Coloring and paper engineering by Gene Kannenberg Jr, who is an online friend. Hi, Gene!)

As long as I’m doing a blog post, let me get a few other upcoming things out of the way:

  • And here’s the cover to It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown!, next March’s adaptation of the April 2022 animated special. But I can understand if you are confused; the special didn’t have an exclamation point in the title.

 

Upcoming releases
A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …