That Racer X Illustrated piece
Well, I’ve got my hands on the Peanuts-covered issue of Racer X Illustrated which I mentioned earlier. It’s apparently not on the stands quite yet — I checked my local Borders yesterday, and they still had copies of the previous issue out (which means that the next issue should be …
Happiness defered is not happiness denied
The upcoming A Treasury of Happiness, collecting the material from the eight Happiness Is A Warm Puppy-style gift books, has been delayed until November (from its previous slated August release.)
Peanuts meet Dracula
A couple years back, a talented one-time collaborator of mine named Adam Rex came out with a children’s book of humorous poems about monsters, called Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. I meant to blog about that here not only because the book was very funny (which it was) but because when …
Grrrreat Pumpkin, the really extended edition
The new DVD edition of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown comes out in September. And yes, it does include a second animated special It’s Magic, Charlie Brown (which means that this time they’re not keeping with the same paired-special packaging as the previous version, which had You’re Not Elected, …
This year’s Complete Peanuts boxed set
The boxed set of The Complete Peanuts 1967-1970 has been announced for September… which is interesting, because the second volume in that set, 1969-1970, isn’t supposed to ship on its own until October. Between that and the reports (which I’ve not yet confirmed) that the boxed set will include the …
New books come out, and Nat goes to Austin
Just a quick catch-up on books now available for immediate shipping: The Peanuts Grand Piano Book Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest And the copies of The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 have actually been printed and genuinely exist, although they’ve not hit the stores yet. I got a copy just the other day, …
Two upcoming book covers
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minor newsy bits
The upcoming new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas now has a cover. Some day, I’ll really have to do a chart of all the formats and editions that have come out under this title… Speaking of A Charlie Brown Christmas book – the huge discount available on the …
Compact Happiness
Coming in August is a book that Amazon calls The Peanuts Classics Treasury: The Complete “Happiness Is” Collection but which the publisher’s website refers to as Peanuts: A Treasury of Happiness. Presumably, this is a collection of all the content from Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Security is a Thumb …
The three latest books
I just received: The new paperback kids book adaptation of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. This one comes with a sheet of stickers, including 3 of Snoopy and 1 each of six other characters. It’s an okay adaptation as such things go; the even line weight and coloring used …