Queen Lucy’s Tree House
Covers of upcoming books! The Peanuts Great American Adventure series! Do the clicky clicky thing if you want them!
Snoopy figure and sticker book
The avalanche of books for the end of the year has not abated, as witness The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy the Flying Ace: Figurine and Sticker Book Kit, which is one of those little boxes that comes with a figurine and a little sixteen page booklet of stickers, thus qualifying it for …
Chip Kidd’s Necessary Peanuts Book
Chip Kidd’s new book Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, as now been given a release date – October 20 – and is available for preorder. Intro by Jeff Kinney, contributions from Jeanie Schulz and the mighty Paige Braddock, and pictures, pictures, pictures!
Lose the Blanket. Take the Cannoli.
We’ve got covers for a couple of upcoming kids books. Lose the Blanket, Linus ships in October, and Happy Valentine’s Day, Charlie Brown ships in December.
The Peanuts Guide to Happiness, take one
The first thing I noticed about the UK-only book The Peanuts Guide to Happiness is that they made the same strange cover design choice that I’ve seen on very few other occasions – they left the Peanuts characters off of the cover. You’d think if you were paying good money …
The anniversary of an anniversary
Coming in September is a paperback edition of Celebrating Peanuts, touted as a 65th anniversary book. The original hardcover edition, which has Schulz commentary culled from various sources, was released as a 60th anniversary edition, although they really put it out around the 59th anniversary. For those keeping count – that’s …
Crochet
I’m not going to review Peanuts Crochet, not just because there would be a strong conflict of interest for me (I am, after all, working on an upcoming book for the same publisher and packager), but because I am really in no position to judge a crochet book, and I …
The language barrier has been broken!
I know you. You were thinking about buying the original Peanuts graphic novel It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown, but you felt there was something wrong with that. Of course, here are all these kids going to Japan, and everyone’s standing around talking English? That just ain’t right! Something had to be done! The …
The most valuable Peanuts book of all
Yesterday, I was guest speaker at my son Ben’s kindergarten class. I spent forty minutes in the morning telling them about how comic books are made and how you read them. I mentioned some of what I’ve worked on (Power Rangers got a good reaction) and what I am working …
The Snoopy Treasures cover
A cover image for my upcoming book, The Snoopy Treasures, has now been released, as you can see here. The images for the inside are still being worked on, but there should be plenty of them, so feel free to go ahead and preorder away!