Celebrating Peanuts UK style (now with links that work!)
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 …
Upcoming complete Peanuts cover
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, …
Warm Blanket GN now orderable through Amazon
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 …
Warm Blanket graphic novel hardcover now preorderable
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, a LEAF globe
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 …
Available for preorder: Complete Peanuts v. 16
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 …
Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show DVD coming
Coming in June is the DVD Snoopy’s Adventures, which includes the “Snoopy and the Giant” episode of the Saturday morning cartoon series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, plus Snoopy’s Getting Married. I’m not sure why Amazon is listing it as being 135 minutes; I can’t find any source suggesting …
Warm Blanket graphic novel available for pre-order… sorta
Sometime this month, the hardcover graphic novel adaptation of the new direct-to-DVD release Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown will hit the shelves and the mailboxes of the nation at a list price just under $20, but because of its last-minute solicitation, it is not yet available for preorder. …
Ordering the Warm Blanket graphic novel
If you’re one of those folks who likes to order your books from your comic book store, tell them -now- that you want the graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, and tell them that it’s listed in “Previews Plus”, and the code is JAN118101. The …
Peanuts goes all graphic novelly on us
As I noted earlier, comics publisher Boom! had announced that they would have some Peanuts material as part of their new Kaboom imprint… and it’s happening quicker than one might have expected. They just announced that they’ll have a graphic novel adaptation of the new direct-to-DVD special Happiness is a …