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The Snoopy Treasures preview video

Here’s an obviously unscripted, somewhat frentic video of me showing off my new book, The Snoopy Treasures, coming out in November and available for preordering here! (If you’re reading the blog through email, you’ll probably have to click through to the website for the video.)

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I’ve been getting questions asking whether the new book Celebrating Peanuts: 65 Years is the same as Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years from six years ago. Yes, it is, it’s just the paperback edition. AAUGH Blog reader John points to this Fantagraphics sale which has the small square book Waiting for the Great Pumpkin for …

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Nothing much, what’s Snoo with you?

(My apologies to anyone who saw an incomplete version of this post that was accidentally published.) Yes, I went to Costco today. No, it wasn’t to look to see if the new hardcover collection of all the 1960s daily strips was in yet. Well, not entirely. But it wasn’t. In yet, …

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Superimposed Snoopys

Sometimes looking at a bunch of Peanuts book covers in a row will raise questions… and answers. Question: Why does Snoopy look like he’s holding something in his right paw on this cover for a book coming out next March? Answer: See this book, coming out in January! And lest …

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Bookplates for your Snoopy Treasures

First off, I don’t know why Amazon and BN.com are suddenly listing December 1 as the release date for my book The Snoopy Treasures. I’ve talked with the publishers, the books are in the warehouse, all is in line for meeting the announced November 10 release date. In a couple days, …

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An additional Great American Adventure

The three history-oriented storybooks in the Peanuts Great American Adventure series that were one supposed to come out this year have been sliding all over the schedule; at the moment, one is now supposed to be landing in January with the other two in June. But add to that June …

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He’s or a hero

For those expressing concern over the opening panel on this announced cover for The Complete Peanuts volume 5 paperback: Fantagraphics is aware of the error in the text and will be correcting it before the book is actually printed.

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More covers

Sometimes, I struggle trying to meet my goal of one blog post a day… but these days, the problem is that I’m trying to keep it not above two, but there is so much happening! As I type this on Tuesday, I’m waiting for seven new Peanuts books to come in …

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Big Book coming

I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled at Costco, where in the past two years I’ve found the first two volumes of The Big Book of Peanuts. This rework of an Italian book format puts all of the dailies from a given decade into a single hefty volume, with the 1980s and …

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Make a Trade, Charlie Brown! cover

This is the cover to the storybook Make a Trade, Charlie Brown!, which ships in December, just ready to stuff in the stocking of your level 2 readers!