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 …
Guide to a revised life
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 …
Surf’s in
As I mentioned the other day, when Amazon says that a book is delayed a few weeks, sometimes it means it is delayed a few weeks, sometimes it means that they don’t know what’s going on. As proof, Snoopy: Cowabunga, the book that I was told Tuesday would likely be …
Surfing out of season
Amazon is sending out notices to folks who ordered the kid-friendly, feature-laden strip collection Snoopy: Cowabunga! that the book will miss its ship date of yesterday, but should be out in a few weeks… which is a notice that sometimes means just what it says, and sometimes means that they …
Still so, so cryptic
Alert AAUGH Blog reader Scott points out that the book that had first showed up in the coming list as Port-A-Snoopy has already had its title changed, and is now Build-Your-Own Snoopy and Woodstock!: Punch-out and Construct Your Own Desktop Peanuts Companions!, a 1-page unbound hardcover.
Hey, it’s my story from Peanuts 12
Over at Comic Vine, they have an exclusive preview of next week’s issue 12 of Kaboom’s Peanuts comic book. Better yet, the preview is basically the first 5 pages of my 8 page story “Movie Time”! So go read!
From the What IS That file
Coming in May is Port-A-Snoopy, and about all Amazon tells us about it is that it’s a one-page paperback. I mean, how do you even do that? Is this the first comic strip that’s a moebius strip? (Pssst: Apparently, they’ve moved the Peanuts Christmas Cookie Set back from August to …