A Big Box and a Test Email

Upcoming releases

Coming in October, it’s a bunch of books that you may already have, full of strips that you may already have in other books, but now it’s in a box! It’s Snoopy: A Big Box of Happiness, and it collects into single cardboard crate the full-color strip reprints

  • Snoopy: Boogie Down!
  • Snoopy: First Beagle in Space
  • Snoopy: Cannonball!
  • Snoopy: Touchdown!
  • Snoopy: Beagle Scout Adventures

And hey, for those who subscribe to the blog by email, you may be hearing about this twice. Why? Because I’m testing out a new blog-by-mail system. The other one seems to have transitioned from including annoying amounts of ads to including impenetrable amounts of ads. If this new system works, well, I hope you didn’t like the old one because I’ll be getting rid of it. That’s part of what makes the Internet what it is: old things breaking.

 

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Upcoming releases
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, …

Upcoming releases
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 …