The deluge begins
Well, I was forecasting a deluge of Peanuts books in the fall, but I should have looked at my calendar more closely – these two shipments are arriving tomorrow, which is still the last day of summer. Having said that, it overcounts things a tad. Seems I was relying on …
The Peanuts Collection is now a collectible
It looks as though my book The Peanuts Collection is now out of print in English. That’s not a surprise; it’s been out five years, and it’s not an easy book to do a reprinting on, as it has all those removable items and really has to be assembled. Some of …
Snoopy: Party Animal cover
Here’s the cover for the full-color paperback strip collection, Snoopy: Party Animal, which is slated to ship in March.
It’s like Sparky returned to his old gig
Charles Schulz’s lettering style was distinct. I’m used to seeing the work of a lot of professional comic book letterers (from the old days of hand lettering; most of it is done by computer now), but I’m used to seeing each letterer’s work being placed over a range of different …
New Charlie Brown Christmas book shows no mercy. Also, no Marcie.
The new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas from Running Press has a couple of special features to make it a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. It comes in a slipcase (you know, a box that the book slides in and out of), and it includes a removable poster of this image: And …
Peanuts: Friends Forever
I just received Peanuts: Friends Forever, the newest in Ballantine’s square reprint books. Like most of this series, it has the strips in color (taken from the recent newspaper reprints), with three dailies or one Sunday on each of the book’s 148 pages of strips. That means hundreds of strips, all …
Now to put my house back in order
I just had a quartet of moviemakers in my house, interviewing me and filming some of the stuff in the AAUGH.com Reference Library as part of a documentary they’re making to promote The Peanuts Movie. So I put on my act-like-an-expert hat, took off my glasses (they were causing an odd …
The Snoopy Treasures exists!
You won’t be able to get your sticky little fingers on this for a couple months yet (which means you can still go preorder it and lock in the best preorder price), but yes, my next book The Snoopy Treasures has been printed and I have a copy in my hands! …
Another kiddie bio of Schulz
One of the joys I’ve had doing this blog is picking apart some of the biographies of Schulz written for kids, generally sold as part of bulk sets of biographies meant to fill school library shelves, offering light reading for youngsters who need to do book reports. The problem with …
PEANUTS: A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES M. SCHULZ – Press Check with Managing Editor Bryce Carlson (with images, tweets) · boomstudios · Storify
The folks at Boom Studios have posted a series of images and videos from their press check for the upcoming book Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz.