Fantagraphics has posted a video preview of Batter Up, Charlie Brown!, a small baseball-themed strip collection coming in April and available for preorder now. It looks like a nice little book.

Simon & Schuster, who for years put out Peanuts kids books (adaptations of animation, original storybooks, and so forth) under their Little Simon imprint, are jumping back on that wagon again, and not in a small way. This time, they’ve been named as the “master licensee” for Peanuts children’s books, …

This is the cover to the new edition of the Peanuts Guide to Life, with the new intro by Andy Cohen, orderable now at http://AAUGH.com/to.htm?0762454326 for shipping in April.

Regnery Publishing has announced that they will be coming out with a series of a dozen Peanuts books aimed at the 4-8 year old set, intended to teach American history and “what makes America strong”. The first three books are slated for next fall, coming out under their Little Patriot …

They’ve released covers for two upcoming volumes in the Peanuts Wisdom To Carry You Through series, Be Active and Be Unique. Both ship in April, and are available for preorder now.

Today would’ve been Schulz’s 91st birthday. Tomorrow (Wednesday), the ABC Family cable network will air all four of the Peanuts animated theatrical films (although not in their original release order.) Their website says this runs 4 PM to 10 PM, but you may have to check your local time zone. …

I had missed that IDW was showing around this sample page of the upcoming Peanuts Artist’s Edition, which reproduces strips directly from the original art. While doing this for a typical comic book story is quite straightforward, allowing one to create pages that are the size of the original art, …

Coming in April is Alice in Comicland, a collection of Alice in Wonderland imagery and stories crafted by some of the biggest names in comics… and even though you won’t see this fact on the Amazon page as it now exists, it includes work by Charles M. Schulz himself, which …

Dedicated comic book fans have recently had the chance to buy “Artists Editions”, big reprints of classic stories shot directly from the original art, so that you can see every subtlety, every bit of paste-up, all the technique that went into drawing the work. These books are relatively few (largely …

Coming in April from Running Press is a newly revised edition of Peanuts Guide to Life, the original edition of which I reviewed back in 2005. I’m not sure whether the revisions will extend beyond the foreword; they’re dumping the one co-written by Bill Cosby, and getting a new one …