Franklin on the front
In email exchanges with some folks, I’ve noted how Franklin, who up until now hadn’t gotten on the front cover of any books unless there were a fair number of other characters, is suddenly getting solo treatment. He’s on the cover of the newest Complete Peanuts volume: And he’s on …
Upcoming Peanuts book news and notes
While yesterday’s announcement of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking was certainly my favorite Peanuts book news of the year (forgive a proud papa), there’s other bits of news and notes popping up. The Complete Peanuts volume 18 and the boxed set of 17& 18 are now available for preorder. The Charlie …
Nat’s new Peanuts Christmas book
Coming in November is a book with genuine Charles Schulz Peanuts Christmas stories that most of you have never read before. Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking is a book that I’m putting together to be published by Fantagraphics, the folks who publish The Complete Peanuts. It features two Christmas stories that …
Snoopy Dog Biscuits – the book!
Coming this December (and preorderable now), it’s Snoopy Dog Biscuits, a book of recipes. This hardcover, written by former USA Today food editor (which sounds like a great job description there – I mean, editing food! “Pump up the corn. Stet the lime beans. The paprika lacks motivation – work …
Peanuts Zombies
I do not understand the workings of some of the automated systems of the book industry. Every once in a while, a publisher for some reason announces a book that never actually gets published. I’ve done it, it happens. In some cases, these fictional books are always on file, marked …
Binary tons of digital Peanuts books
As I’ve mentioned here earlier, a number of Peanuts books have been showing up in digital formats. One of my elves has just slipped me the entire plan for books being released through iVerse for the rest of the year, readable on your iPad and similar devices. Each month brings …
Battling adaptations
Now that we can see the cover for the upcoming book It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: With Sound and Music, it’s clear that they’re doing something which I thought they might. Is this book the general market version of Hallmark’s recent sound button book of the same special? Well, …
Shouldn’t that be Sound -Including- Music
Running Press has announced that August will bring us the book It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: With Sound and Music. This book (which is now available for preorder, so go do so!) is presumably the general market version of last year’s Hallmark-only release, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: …
Peanuts comic book #4 cover
The cover for Peanuts issue 4, coming in April, featuring Lucy and… who is that masked marvel?
upcoming comic book covers
It looks like they’re getting away from reusing the covers of old Peanuts comic books.