Peanuts issue 27 preview
Here is the first batch of pages for issue 27 of the Peanuts comic book, hitting supportive comic book stores this coming Wednesday. It’s another just-one-story-in-the-issue issue.
More books translated from the British
The line of American Kindle versions of the old British Snoopy Stars/Snoopy Features books, which is launching with four books later this month is following with four more in May. Snoopy, Master of the Fairways Snoopy, Man’s Best Friend Snoopy, the Music Lover Snoopy, the Flying Ace
Some sources list the author as “Ladybird Ladybird”
Australian books are a pain in my tuchis. They’re things I should get to keep up my goal of having all the English language Peanuts books, but shipping costs are simply forbidding. Now I’m looking with caution at a couple of books that are showing up in some listings, books …
Cover cwestion
AAUGH Blog reader Jon raises this question about Peanuts Volume 5: “Why is the cover art posted on Amazon different than what you have in your blog? Even the link you posted takes you to that different cover art.” The answer is pretty simple: publishers enter their information into the …
Peanuts volume 5 preview
Hitting comic book stores Wednesday is volume 5 of the collected Peanuts comic books, published by Kaboom. This includes the three of my Peanuts stories for them – “Joe Stockcar”, “Press Here”, and “New Shoe Zoom”, with art by Andy Hirsch, Jeff Shultz, and Robert Pope, respectively. It also has …
Charlie Brown gets religion this November
Coming in November is a book that I alluded to a year back: A Charlie Brown Religion: The Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz, by (AAUGH Blog reader!) Stephen J. Lind. I’ve been waiting for someone to do a good book along these lines, and from what I’ve seen of Lind’s …
It’s a New New World, Charlie Brown
The cover for the upcoming book It’s a New World, Charlie Brown has been changed. It is now: when it was previously shown as:
A bumper crop of British books
The UK is getting some more titles not available on these shores… unless you order them shipped here, as these links will do. The Bumper Book of Peanuts (October) Hardcover of strips from the 1970s, 1980s. How to Be a Grrrl (November) by Lucy van Pelt
Kari Schuetz covers Charles Schulz (say that 5 times fast!)
It’s been a while since we got a new aimed-at-the-school-library biography of Schulz. That drought ends in August with Charles Schulz, part of the Blastoff Readers line, written by Kari Schuetz. This Level 4 reader is now available for preorder.
Peanuts cover bands unite
The previously-mentioned Peanuts Off-Model book is now being listed as Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz. Folks doing their own takes on Schulz’s characters include the very Peanuts-influenced Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), Raina Telgemeier (I’ve been reading some of her best-selling YA graphic novels lately, like Smile and Drama), and Jeffrey …