Comic book Peanuts

A little Peanuts to give away

There are many things that I do wrong in this world. One of the things that I do right is to give out comics at Halloween; they are popular, they don’t cause cavities, they encourage reading. And this year, I get to give out some Peanuts comics in the mix. …

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The Artist’s Edition IS coming

Amazon just updated their page for the Peanuts Artist’s Edition. They say it will be in stock next week, which means they probably already have the shipping information from the publisher. My copy is scheduled to arrive here Wednesday. And their price, while not quite as cheap as it was, is …

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Digital Snoopy disappears

A few days ago, I noted the appearance of Snoopy’s Happy Day: A Finger-Puppet Book in the Amazon catalog. Today, I notice it’s gone; if you go to the page for the book, you’ll find that it is now titled UNTITLED, written by that great sage, TBA. Is it something that …

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Awesome cover

This is the cover for Peanuts: Be Awesome, coming in November.

Comic book Peanuts

Peanuts volume 5

Coming next March: Peanuts volume 5, which if they’re going by schedule, should collect issue 13-16 of volume 2 of the Kaboom Peanuts comic book… and thus have three stories that I wrote (“Joe Stockcar”, “Press Here”, and “New Shoe Zoom”) Remember, you can see my full list of upcoming Peanuts …

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Digital Snoopy

Coming in March of 2015 is Snoopy’s Happy Day, a finger-puppet book (which I assume means a book with a finger puppet built in, rather than a book accompanied by a finger puppet or a book about making finger puppets.) It’s aimed at age range 1 and up, reading level preschool …

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What? They are still doing the Complete Peanuts?

Yes, yes, there are still several more volumes of Complete Peanuts to go before the set is, well, complete. What you see here is the preliminary cover for volume 23, which is now available for preorder. It’s not the cover which we were told at one point we’d get on …

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Artist’s Edition coming next week, I really mean it

The comic book store distributor Diamond has the Peanuts Artist’s Edition on this coming week’s shipping list. That indicates that it is already in their warehouse and is being boxed up now to go out. So it really should hit those comic shops that ordered it (which will be far from …

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Artist’s Edition date set

IDW has announced that the Peanuts Artist’s Edition will hit comic book stores next Wednesday, June 11th This does not mean that Amazon will necessarily get them, much less ship them, on the same date. The method of delivery to Amazon is different from the path to the comics shop. …

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Probably not the real valentine

Amazon has posted this cover for the January 2015 release of another small hardcover strip collection from Fantagraphics, A Valentine for Charlie Brown: Now, usually I would say that this is the cover for the book… but Fantagraphics pretty regularly changes their covers from the initial solicitation, and not just in minor …