Inside Thanksgiving
For some reason, Amazon doesn’t have the cover for this fall’s new book edition of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, but they do have this low-resolution shot of an interior spread…. one which I think makes particularly good use of the two-page layout.
Sally Brown to the front!
Here’s the cover for volume 8 of the collections of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series. This book, which drops in November (and is preorderable now) should include four issues of the comic book… but I’m not yet sure which ones. By the way things have been running, it should include …
A soft tribute
October will bring a softcover edition of Peanuts, a Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the collection of comic book stories by various comicsers either wielding the Peanuts characters or talking about the place of Peanuts in their lives. You can see my review of the hardcover edition here.
A Charlie Brown Christmas – in print!
It’s time for the annual happy dance, because the streak continues. Yes, that’s right, this year there’s another new print edition coming out of A Charlie Brown Christmas! I’m avoiding saying “book”, because it’s more of a fold-out item, but the A Charlie Brown Christmas Coloring Kit shipping in September has a …
Obama Pays Tribute to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the ‘Peanuts’ Gang
The New York Times has this article announcing that Obama has written the intro for Complete Peanuts volume 25.This has me doing the Happy AAUGH Blogger dance for several reasons: I scooped the New York Times! I announced Obama’s introduction weeks ago… and to the best of my knowledge, I was …
Every Sunday cover
Here’s the solicited cover for this fall’s volume in the Peanuts Every Sunday series, covering the second half of the 1960s. However, Fantagraphics has a tendency to change their covers after solicitation… and they might do that to the boxed set pictured below as well.
more Peanutsy fall books
Added to the books coming up this fall are: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 50th Anniversary Edition, a storybook with stickers and a trick-or-treat bag (August) Lucy Knows Best, a storybook crafted by Kama Einhorn and Robert Pope, available in paperback and hardcover (August) Peanuts Volume 8, with another …
End-of-the-year books
Sorry I’ve been letting the rest of life get in the way of my blogging lately. I’ve had much of general reality to handle… with a thing or two for the Peanuts fans that I’ll tell you about eventually. Anyway, the fall solicitations have been showing up, with some upcoming Peanuts …
You can (and should!) order Complete Peanuts 26
I’ve got some catching up to do as this fall’s book solicitations hit the system. A number of things need to be logged’n’blogged, and life is pretty full at the moment, but I wanted to get right to pointing out that you can now preorder The Complete Peanuts volume 26: Comics …
Little Patriot disappearing?
Little Patriot Press, the branch of conservative publisher Regenery that had been publishing historically-linked Peanuts Great American Adventure books is showing signs that cause concern. Amazon just emailed me to say that they couldn’t get their hands on thew new volume that was supposed to be out, I Declare, Charlie Brown. …