Stinky Cecil
The folks who do Peanuts comic books generally don’t just do Peanuts comic books. For example, Paige Braddock, who not only works on the comics but is Creative Director over at the Schulz studio, has a new for-kids graphic novel Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue, in which nature’s creatures …
Bigger Weapon Brown
About eight years back, I reviewed Weapon Brown, a one-shot comic that collected and expanded Jason Yungbluth’s take on the Peanuts characters having grown up in a post-apocalyptic world. While I thought he did the work to find ways of combining those two realms, my review was summarized by “But not …
Snoopy for Kindling
In the midst of the swarm of Peanuts books scheduled to hit the shelves this year, there are also ebooks landing as well. Coming up in April is four Peanuts ebooks: Snoopy Master of Disguise Snoopy the Fitness Fanatic Snoopy the Legal Beagle Snoopy the Matchmaker The titles suggest strongly …
To Be Announced is announced
They’ve now announced the author of The Peanuts Movie Novelization – it’s Tracey West. Tracey is a very prolific children’s author, with lots of work on licensed character materials such as books about Lego Ninjago and Adventure Time. One of her most recent releases was one that seems a rather thankless task – …
Finally, someone addresses the looming Peanuts book shortage
Cider Mill Press is once again reissuing some of those sweet little Determined Productions gift books, with four of them being released in October: Happiness is a Warm Puppy Love is Walking Hand in Hand Home is On Top of a Dog House Christmas Is Together-Time The numbering is Cider …
Peanuts are Golden… Books
The Golden Books line is putting out three Peanuts volumes in September. Two of them are reprints of (or at least have the same title as) Little Golden Books issued in the 1980s: Let’s Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown and Where’s Woodstock. The new title, Meet the Peanuts Gang, will have to …
Coverswitch on my book
Now Amazon is showing this cover for my upcoming book The Snoopy Treasures, different from the one they were showing last month. I have no inside information that I can give you on whether this is the final version. (The title on this version is slightly different as well; it …
Two months of Sundays
You may recall when Fantagraphics announced their full color Sunday reprint series Peanuts Every Sunday that I pointed out that this could cause some confusion for collectors, as there was an old black-and-white Holt, Rinehart, and Winston collection of the same name. Well, that confusion may not just be for old …
Wormy Weather Peanuts
At the moment, Amazon is claiming that this is the cover to the Peanuts Mad Libs book coming out in October. I suspect it will be changed before release.
The Peanuts crew shows how to write right
With the help of this Japanese writing guide, I could soon learn to write Japanese. Which would be really cool. But then I would have to get another book that teaches me how to read Japanese, or I’ll have no idea what I’ll have written. The book is illustrated with …