Found at Amazon Japan, and actually available to be shipped from Japan via Amazon US: PEANUTS meets SPECIAL PRODUCT DESIGN 2. I assume that’s supposed to be a tan, and not African American Surfing Snoopy… but you never know. The volume comes with a free shopping bag bearing this image.

Friend of the blog Ray gave me a reason that the Japanese edition of Dr. Snoopy’s Advice for Pet Owners I talked about a week back had the odd price of 762 yen: because once a 5% sales tax was tacked on that, it becomes a nice round no-small-change-needed 800 yen. …

I’m grooving on these Italian book covers, which use a different text sensibility than one typically sees on Peanuts books. (Click on the book to go to ordering page.)

Shipping in a few weeks is the latest volume in The Complete Peanuts, covering the years 1991-1992. I’ve already got a copy (provided by the publisher, Fantagraphics, with whom I have business dealings on other books), and here are my thoughts on reading through it: The introduction by cartoonist Tom …

This year’s Kaboom! Summer Blast! comic book, given away at comic book shops yesterday, includes the five-page story How To Be A World-Famous Author by Vicki Scott and Paige Braddock, reprinted from issue 14 of volume 2 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book, as well as a one Sunday strip reprint. …

He has spent his life at sea, He has sailed the wide world o’er, Now a castaway he drifts about the town. For his fate no mortal grieves; Not a living soul believes That there’s any good in drunken Charlie Brown. Hark! the minute gun’s loud boom Brings a tale …

I finally got a copy of the new small hardcover strip collection Batter Up, Charlie Brown, which started shipping about a week ago. (My apologies for waiting so long; cheapskate Nat was waiting to see if a comp copy might arrive, but no.) This 64 page book reprints three baseball stories …

As was explained to us when Derrick Bang and I were putting together the book collection of Schulz’s It’s Only A Game cartoons, the strip was designed to run in either of two formats: the full Sunday strip format as seen in the current color collection of the strip, or …

I would write a review of Be Active, but I’d rather spend my time getting ready for my trip to Las Vegas, so just go read my review of Be Unique again. If you liked that one, you’ll like this. (It’s a bit more weighed to pictures without quotes, and …

I have landed my copy of Be Unique, the latest in the “Peanuts Wisdom to Carry You Through” series of full-color gift books, with quotes from the strip (and in one case, directly from Schulz rather than speaking through his characters)  and images inspired by the strip, brought to life by …