You may not know it from meeting me, but I’m a shy guy. Particularly when it comes to the phone. I feel awkward and uncertain, and try to avoid calling just about anyone whom I’m not already close to. But I’m also a very curious guy about certain things. If …

Here’s the cover for Snoopy Loves to Doodle, coming out in August, and available for preorder now. It looks to me more like the cover to Snoopy Likes to Go Speed Walking, but what do I know?

The local Wendy’ses are being slow to clear out their recent Kid’s Meal toy line focused on Pac-Man and friends –. well, not so much friends, as occasionally edible enemies — and not so fast to move on to the next batch, toys built around the hit TV show Wheel …

Those of you in the San Francisco Bay area can head over to WonderCon, which in my experience is a fairly good comics convention (I shan’t be there this year, though.) And if you’re there on Saturday, you can stop by the Boom Studios booth and buy yourself one of …

For a while I’ve been keeping an eye on an upcoming book from Ravette Publishing in the UK. Ravette, who have been publishing Peanuts books for a long time, are a bit tough to track – they don’t even have a website that I can find. But the UK branch …

We interrupt this run of posts on fast food board books with these breaking news: The cover to The Complete Peanuts volume 16, shipping this fall, will look like this: We return you now to our usual nattering. (And yes, there is another post about board books on the way, …

Amazon’s system now has the hardcover Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown graphic novel adaptation available for preorder. It has been added to the upcoming Peanuts book list, which has ten different books (well, seven books, ten editions) available for preorder at the moment, as well as a listing …

The rush-solicited hardcover graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown is now available for preorder from Barnes & Noble, at a nice discount, but not yet available from Amazon. (The original announcement was that the book would be available in March, but Barnes & Noble doesn’t …

Oh, I get it now! It’s not “globe” as in “spherical map”; it’s “globe” as in “sno-globe”, only presumably with leaves instead of sno. That’s what the It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown leaf globe thing is that’s coming out in August. Later, when I’m not pinned under a one-and-a-half …

You can now preorder The Complete Peanuts Volume 16: 1981-1982, as well as the boxed set with both volumes 15 and 16. Volume 16 will have an introduction by Lynn Johnston… which is a kindly return, because Schulz did introduction writing for collections of “For Better Or For Worse”, Johnston’s …