Who Cares, Charlie Brown? I do!
The solicitations for fall books just hit… and boy, did they ever hit hard for the Peanuts book collector. Whatever you collect, you’ll have something to buy. If you like your strip collections complete and hardcover, you’ve got volume 22 of The Complete Peanuts, as well as the box set …
Preview of Batter Up, Charlie Brown!
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.
A plethora of Peanuts kids books coming. Maybe two pelthorae
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, …
Peanuts Guide to Life cover
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.
Conservative Peanuts are Coming
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 …
Be Covers
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.
Quick notes
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. …
Speaking of the Artist’s Edition
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, …
Alice in Schulzland
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 …
BIG Peanuts book news
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 …