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Here are the covers for two upcoming Peanuts books: Cheer Up, Charlie Brown and the new edition of Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday. Both are available for preorder.
Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow!
Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow. It’s a great day when most comic book shops in North America (and many elsewhere) give away free special-edition comics to people just for stopping in. Some shops will let you pick just one comic (and hey, that’s a deal), some will give …
Be Joyful and Scanimation covers
At right (if you’re reading this on the blog site) is the announced cover for Be Joyful, a September 23rd-shipping book in the Peanuts Wisdom to Carry You Through series. Below is the cover for the Peanuts Scanimation book, listed as shipping the same day.
British Peanuts philosophy
Coming this fall in the UK are a quartet of books in the Peanuts Guides to Life series: Philosophy of Snoopy, The Wisdom of Woodstock, The Genius of Charlie Brown, and Life Lessons from Lucy. It looks like these books aren’t being offered in the US… which is why those links …
You, in a Peanuts book
“Customized” books have been around for a long time, with specialty publishers offering to insert your child’s name and sometimes some key details into a children’s book, giving them a unique item that talks about him. The publisher Sourcebooks has a line of these special-order items that add not just …
A cover, and now shipping
Despite having a listed publication date of April 5, the new Fantagraphics hardcover strip collection Batter Up, Charlie Brown! is now shipping. And here is the cover for the rerelease of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Tradition:, designed to match the recently re-released book on the …
Peanuts 19
Here’s the cover to volume 2, issue 19 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book, shipping in June. (This will make a full two dozen issues produced by them, meaning that they will have already produced around 2/3s as many pages of Peanuts comic book material as were in the Dell and …
The Artist’s Edition price
Amazon is listing the upcoming big Peanuts Artist’s Edition as having a “list price” of $149.99. That may not be accurate. The book was solicited to the comic book stores without a list price; instead, they are being told simply what they would have to pay for it wholesale. It is …
CORRECTION: Peanuts Artist’s Edition
My previous posting had said that the Peanuts Artist’s Edition would be reprinting art at its original dimensions. Unfortunately, that is not the case; due to the large size that Schulz worked at, the publisher has chosen to vary from the standard with such books and reduce the work when …
Peanuts Artist’s Edition now orderable
CORRECTED: Previously, this entry said that the art would be reproduced at the original size. That is incorrect; it is being reduced. The error has been removed. That big “Artist’s Edition” that is reproduces Peanuts original art? It’s now available for preorder. I always push preordering, and on this, I’m …