October will bring a softcover edition of Peanuts, a Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, the collection of comic book stories by various comicsers either wielding the Peanuts characters or talking about the place of Peanuts in their lives. You can see my review of the hardcover edition here.

I just checked at BookOutlet.com (<use that link and you may get a $5 gift card and I get a kickback if you order), and found that they have the Peanuts Paint-By-Number Kit that includes the small book that I wrote, Classic Peanuts: Great Moments, for $7.99, which is less than half …

It’s time for the annual happy dance, because the streak continues. Yes, that’s right, this year there’s another new print edition coming out of A Charlie Brown Christmas! I’m avoiding saying “book”, because it’s more of a fold-out item, but the A Charlie Brown Christmas Coloring Kit shipping in September has a …

The New York Times has this article announcing that Obama has written the intro for Complete Peanuts volume 25.This has me doing the Happy AAUGH Blogger dance for several reasons: I scooped the New York Times! I announced Obama’s introduction weeks ago… and to the best of my knowledge, I was …

Here’s the solicited cover for this fall’s volume in the Peanuts Every Sunday series, covering the second half of the 1960s. However, Fantagraphics has a tendency to change their covers after solicitation… and they might do that to the boxed set pictured below as well.

The Peanuts Collectors Club has announced that their big gathering, Beaglefest, will take place on July 21 – 24 in Anaheim California, the home to Knott’s Berry Farm and the original Camp Snoopy. The group has various exciting things planned, and to balance that a bit, they’ve also got me coming …

Added to the books coming up this fall are: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 50th Anniversary Edition, a storybook with stickers and a trick-or-treat bag (August) Lucy Knows Best, a storybook crafted by Kama Einhorn and Robert Pope, available in paperback and hardcover (August) Peanuts Volume 8, with another …

Graphic novelist Doug TenNapel posted this shot of a 1966 Pogo original on Facebook the other day: It looks to be the room of Pogo character Rackety Coon Chile, an energetic youngster. And what does it have… besides lots of wonderful detail and the exquisite line work that makes Walt …

Umberto Eco, the best-selling author of such books as The Name of the Rose, respected semiotics specialist, and general intellectual has died. What some of you may recall is that at times over the decades he focused his intellectual light on Peanuts, such as in this essay from 1963. or in writing the …

First, a quick personal note – a few people took my comments about my dealing with a lot of life lately to assume (understandably) that something was wrong. No, it’s mostly good stuff, some frustrating stuff, nothing tragic. It’s just that February is proving to be overwhelmingly full. I appreciate …