The mailma’am just delivered my copies of the book of reminiscences about Charles Schulz that I discussed earlier. I was surprised to find that the book didn’t bear the title which I’d been told it would have. While the text of the book refers to itelf by the old tile …

Comic Con International: San Diego, the biggest comic book convention in the US, is a mere two weeks away. This is a huge event, with hundreds of talks, thousands of exhibitors, millions of comics and books on sale, thousands of comics pros in attendance, plus movie and TV stars, toys, …

Now shipping: and though I should have noted it earlier, the DVD boxed set of This is America, Charlie Brown is now available for immediate shipment. This has the complete eight-episode miniseries, more than three hours of material on two disks at a good price.

The contest is over, the judge has made is arbitrary and final ruling, so it’s time for the announcement: The contest, as you may recall, was to come up with the best response to this question: “You bought Complete Peanuts Volume 5: 1959-1960 when it came out in the spring, …

Cider Mill Press has apparently decided to design new covers for a couple of the Determined Productions Peanuts books they’re reprinting. I Need All the Friends I Can Get has a cover image that is taken from the inside of the American edition – one that was strongly altered when …

It’s time for AAUGH.com to run its first contest, and thanks to the folks at Fantagraphics, we have a cool prize for some Peanuts book collector out there. How would you like to win volumes 1-3 of The Complete Peanuts… in Italian?!? How many of your collecting friends have those? …

I have a number of t-shirts with Charles Schulz drawings on them, but I don’t have a t-shirt with a drawing of Charles Schulz on it.

In the wake of last night’s post about foreign language edition of The Complete Peanuts, I got a reader inquiry about “hey, is it going to be available in thus-and-such a language?” (Hi, Dan!) And so, to head off getting that inquiry one at a time for every possible language, …

Derrick Bang, the man behind the Peanuts anniversary book 50 Years of Happiness and editor on the collection of Schulz’s other strip, It’s Only a Game, is casting about for stories about how Peanuts has affected people. Let me turn the blogmike over to him: Calling all Peanuts fans! Don …

For those interested in publishing history, here’s a nice article on St. John, a comic book publisher that published Peanuts material in various titles. (Link via Mark Evanier.) And remember, we have a quick guide to all of the Peanuts comic book appearance as part of our collecting guide.