Covers to coming things

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It’s that time when all the computer systems update and suddenly we’re seeing covers t0o some of the books that are rolling down the road toward us. The big one in this batch is probably Snoopy: The Story of My Life, which is the Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago ghosting the tale of Snoopy’s history. (August)

Happiness is Peanuts, a new attempt at something along the line of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy books of the 1960s, will have this chipper cover. (May)

And Peanuts All Year Round, the new boxed set of 5 previously- issued square books (four themed strip reprints plus the Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking book collecting Christmas stories from women’s magazines) will look something like this. (May)

 

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