Artist’s Edition date set
IDW has announced that the Peanuts Artist’s Edition will hit comic book stores next Wednesday, June 11th This does not mean that Amazon will necessarily get them, much less ship them, on the same date. The method of delivery to Amazon is different from the path to the comics shop. …
Not a book by Charlie Brown
As I showed the other day, I’m always interested in books about and even by folks named Charlie Brown. But I’ve found one that’s not by Charlie Brown, it’s by his daughter. That’s how she identifies herself on the book; the author name is Charlie Brown’s Daughter. The book has the …
Probably not the real valentine
Amazon has posted this cover for the January 2015 release of another small hardcover strip collection from Fantagraphics, A Valentine for Charlie Brown: Now, usually I would say that this is the cover for the book… but Fantagraphics pretty regularly changes their covers from the initial solicitation, and not just in minor …
Relatively Charlie Brown
As a Peanuts book blogger, I’ve always enjoyed the category of things that look like Peanuts books but aren’t. I found two of them tonight… interestingly similar. Who Are You Charlie Brown? a Search for Family is Wendy Brown’s search for information on her grandfather, one Charles Brown. That’s available …
The World Famous Doctor
I just stumbled across the short parody mashup story Snoopy is a Time Lord by William Hrdina, crossing the TV special “You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown” with the world of Doctor Who (and not, I think we can assume, authorized by anyone). Now, usually I might not post about a small-time parody …
Peanuts 65th anniversary book #1
For those of you certain that every possible Peanuts book had already come out, and that no new books were possible for next year, you can relax. The world is not about to end…. because it has already been announced that 65 Years of Snoopy, a 196 page paperback, will be …
Peanuts 18
Coming tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) to better comic book stores is issue 18 of the Peanuts comic book. This issue has (in addition to the stories “Dance Craze” and “Blind as a Bat” and a reprint of a four-daily-strip baseball sequence arranged in the centerfold so it can be removed …
Getting Japanese books in America
Now that you can order some Japanese books through the US Amazon, it makes things so much easier to get such books. Well, some of them. Dadgummit, you can’t get that Japanese adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas that way. But here’s some things you can get; click on the cover to get …
For those of you who always wanted to punch out Snoopy
Now shipping: Build-Your-Own Snoopy and Woodstock!: Punch-out and Construct Your Own Desktop Peanuts Companions! (at least, that’s what they call it at Amazon.)
Return of the alternate covers
After having taken a break from issuing rarer alternative covers for each issue of their Peanuts comic book, Kaboom has returned to the practice with the most recent issue, #17. Once again, they are doing “first appearance” covers, but starting with this one, it’s the first appearance of a phrase. …