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Snoopy makes many turns to the left

Coming to the racetrack this fall is another Snoopy-decorated race-a-ma-jig. Everybody’s favorite beagle… well, not everybody’s favorite, surely some people love their own dog more than they love Snoopy, it’s understandable… but the favorite beagle for the largest number of people, making him the most favoritest beagle, he will be on …

Upcoming releases

Good Sport cover

Here’s the announced cover for Be a Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, an upcoming children’s storybook… which, according to the cover, will have bonus baseball facts! (I suspect they will not be the sort of bonus baseball facts that I want, which would be Lucy explaining the facts of baseball to Linus in …

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The Sneaky Little Beagle

The big store chain called Hallmark has got another book I went on the web to try to have a look! The site said “a sale! But exceptions do apply!” And books were an exception, so li’l Nat did cry. That’s right, Hallmark is in the midst of a sale …

Upcoming releases

For the Love of Peanuts

When I went to the Peanuts pop-up store outside of the San Diego Con (as opposed to the Peanuts booth inside the convention), what I was really hoping to find was… well, this thing that it turns out is going to exist, but not until next April. For the Love of Peanuts: …

Upcoming releases

Look at the Look And Find I found

Coming in September is a new Peanuts Look and Find book, which has a different cover title than its Amazon listing at this point. I suspect this is just a reprint of 2011’s Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown Look and Find, and I could better verify that by comparing the inside spreads …

Upcoming releases

My First 100 Peanuts Words cover

Here is the cover for My First 100 Peanuts Words, an upcoming board book. Spoiler warning: the cover reveals some of the words!

Discounts

Big Peanuts Kindle sale

Fantagraphics is having a big sale on the digital editions of their books – including all their Peanuts books! Volumes of The Complete Peanuts are $7.99 apiece. Smaller books like Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, $2.99! If you like your books on your Kindle device, go buy now!

Nat news

My new license plate frame

Now everywhere I drive is considered a deductible advertising expense, right? RIGHT?? I really wanted to make the top line (heart)PEANUTS? but the build-your-own-frame set had no question marks. Which is a bad thing. Unquestionably.

Comic book Peanuts

Mission Accomplished

While there were lots of bits of business that I had to get done at Comic-Con last week, the one purchase I felt was absolutely necessary was to get a copy of Mission Out of Control, the convention-exclusive Peanuts comic book. After all, I’m the guy who chronicles these things. This …

Comic-Con

Snoopy wins an award, and some nun news

At last night’s Eisner Awards, generally considered the biggest awards in the American comics scene, the big thick hardcover strip collection Celebrating Snoopy took home the trophy in the category of “Best Archival Collection/Project – Strips”. Congratulations to the fine folks who put that book together… and to Snoopy himself! And …