Read my first Peanuts story here
Those of you who follow the current Peanuts comic book may have noted that they had been starting with a longer story, followed by shorter stories, until recently. That meant that the first-5-pages “preview” packs that they sent out for the press to share included just part of a story. …
Complete Peanuts covers
Here’s the image of this year’s Complete Peanuts boxed set: And here’s the cover for this fall’s volume 20: Note the reveal: the introduction will be by Lemony Snicket. Who is a fictional character (but hey, Snoopy wrote an intro or two in his day), and who nonetheless authored The …
The Forewritten Foreword
A quick note on the already-printed, soon-to-be-released The Complete Peanuts: 1987-1988: This volume boasts a foreword by Garry Trudeau, creator of “Doonesbury”. It is a very fine piece of writing. However, on the off chance that you’re buying this volume primarily for the foreword, you should know that it’s not …
Multicultural Peanuts
So perhaps you thought the original graphic novel It’s Tokyo, Charlie Brown! sounded like a good idea, but realized that if you read it in English, it wouldn’t really capture the feel of being in a foreign land. Well, there’s good news for you! You can now preorder Nos Vamos …
This fall’s preorders
Now available for preorder are The Complete Peanuts volume 20, the boxed set of volumes 19 and 20, and the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday, the larger color collections of just the Sunday strips. As always, I encourage ordering as soon as possible; Amazon’s preorder price guarantee promises that …
minor correction
In an earlier message, I said I’d have two stories in the upcoming Peanuts issue 8, which may not be true; I somehow had placed the story I’ve written for issue 7 into issue 8. I’ll have one story in 7 (three pages of Schroeder and Lucy), at least one …
Peanuts comic book issue 6
Usually, the Peanuts preview has a portion of a story… but instead you get a whole short tale here! You can buy the full issue in your favorite comic book store starting tomorrow. (Click on each page to enlarge.) By the way, that story is penciled by the talented Vicki …
As opposed to a needless variant, here’s a needle one
While the Boom! Peanuts series has had rare alternative covers for each of their issues, some of them have had other variant cover editions. These are ones meant for sale at specific conventions. Next up is this year’s Emerald City Comicon, in Seattle March 1 through 3, and I think …
Charlie Brown Christmas Watch 2013
As regular readers know, one of my biggest joys is keeping an eye out for new book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Well, my alarm bells went off today when I found this listing for A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles Schulz, coming this October. But then I looked closer …
What Nat’s been working on
That’s a piece of the pencil art for a three page story entitled “Bank Notes” which will be showing up in issue 7 of the Peanuts comic book, due out in April. The art is by Stephanie Gladden, who I’ve wanted to work with for a long long time now. …