Tributing Peanuts
I just finished reading Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, and if I ever get called on to create material for a tribute book, I think I’ll start by reading this volume again. That’s because it contains a variety of takes of what it means to be doing a tribute. …
Snoopy!: Contact
There’s a saying that I lean on from time to time, generally when talking about sex or pizza, that “you have to have some really bad ____ for it to be worse than not having it at all.” The same concepts holds true for Peanuts strip collections. You know I like …
Snoopy basics
Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library are four newly shipping board books: Snoopy’s Book of . . . Colors covering the range of the rainbow. Well, plus white and black. Snoopy’s Book of . . . Shapes with circle, stripe, and even rhombus, which I think is a shape they invented …
Superimposed Snoopys
Sometimes looking at a bunch of Peanuts book covers in a row will raise questions… and answers. Question: Why does Snoopy look like he’s holding something in his right paw on this cover for a book coming out next March? Answer: See this book, coming out in January! And lest …
Bookplates for your Snoopy Treasures
First off, I don’t know why Amazon and BN.com are suddenly listing December 1 as the release date for my book The Snoopy Treasures. I’ve talked with the publishers, the books are in the warehouse, all is in line for meeting the announced November 10 release date. In a couple days, …
An additional Great American Adventure
The three history-oriented storybooks in the Peanuts Great American Adventure series that were one supposed to come out this year have been sliding all over the schedule; at the moment, one is now supposed to be landing in January with the other two in June. But add to that June …
Scamp Snoopy
Today’s dive into the “not THAT Snoopy” pile is the Kindle e-book for Scamp Snoopy (The Hooded Rodentia). This Snoopy is a black and white critter, but a rat rather than a beagle. Apparently, this is the true story of one of a pet belonging to the author, one Lolita Patricia …
He’s or a hero
For those expressing concern over the opening panel on this announced cover for The Complete Peanuts volume 5 paperback: Fantagraphics is aware of the error in the text and will be correcting it before the book is actually printed.
More covers
Sometimes, I struggle trying to meet my goal of one blog post a day… but these days, the problem is that I’m trying to keep it not above two, but there is so much happening! As I type this on Tuesday, I’m waiting for seven new Peanuts books to come in …
Only What’s Necessary
The sensibility of Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, the new book from designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear, will seem very familiar to folks who bought Kidd’s earlier Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. It displays Peanuts work not as it was meant to …