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“Making of” cover

We’ve got a cover (pretty, isn’t it?) for the The Peanuts Movie making-of book, which drops a month before the movie. Author Jerry Schmitz has written similar books for a couple of the Shrek films, and this volume has a forward by director Steve Martino and Fox Animation president Vanessa …

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Oh, the movie has Snoopy AND Charlie Brown. That’s good to know.

The book that was previously listed as The Peanuts Movie Book is now coming up as Snoopy & Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie Novelization.

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Getting Snoopy Treasures at the comic book shop

You can, of course, preorder my November book The Snoopy Treasures from Amazon. For those of you who would rather preorder from your local comic book store, they should now be working on their orders for that month. Let them know now that you want item code AUG15 1911.

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Peanuts movie books forever!

We’ve already seen a number of books adapting The Peanuts Movie that will be coming out this year around the time the film arrives. It turns out, that’s not the end of it! Slated for May of next year is Peanuts: The Movie Book, available in editions with and without a CD. …

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Novels by Monte Schulz

For those interested in the larger Schulz family: this December, Complete Peanuts publisher Fantagraphics will be offering Crossing Eden, collecting Schulz’s son Monte’s Jazz Age novel trilogy into a single volume.

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History is delayed

The next three Peanuts storybooks in the Great American Adventure line from the conservative imprint Little Patriot Press have been pushed back. These were supposed to ship in September, now not until next May. These books are: I Declare, Charlie Brown! looks at the founding of the country (“Declare” as in “Declaration …

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Many different Charlies Brown

Finally, we have  a cover for Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the book where various artists get to bring their own style to Peanuts. We also have a fuller artist list: Mike Allred, Art Baltazar, Paige Braddock, Megan Brennan, Frank Cammuso, Colleen Coover, Evan Dorkin, Chynna Flores, Julie Fujii, Shaenon …

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Peanuts Movie OGN is DOA

There was a book in the catalogs as Peanuts Movie OGN, indicating that a graphic novel would be hitting in August in the style of the movie. Well, the ISBN (an identification number) that was being used for that is now being used for September’s Where Beagles Dare graphic novel – which …

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Snoopy: Party Animal

Coming in March 2016 is Snoopy: Party Animal, which looks to be another in the AMP Comics For Kids full-color strip collections. And as long as I’m making a post: on Monday, I stopped by Snoopy’s Gallery & Gift Shop in Santa Rosa, and signed a dozen or so copies of The …

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Christmas comes at least twice this year

They’re now listing a paperback edition of the new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas that’s coming out this September (at first, they had listed only a Kindle edition.)  Couple that with the deluxe hardcover edition of an earlier adaptation which ships the same day, and that means at least two …