Peanuts 25 sneak peak
Here you go… the first 5 pages from the 32-page-long story that fills issue 25 of the current Peanuts comic book, which hits comic book stores on Wednesday. There are a few alternate covers being offered in varying ways.
A novel writing credit
The Amazon listing for the novelization of The Peanuts Movie has been updated, so it now lists the authors as To Be Announced and Charles M. Schulz. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Ms. Announced’s work, well, I haven’t read much of it before myself, but she must be …
On the fifteenth anniversary of his death
Let us remember that Charles Schulz didn’t use the “someone who has an idea has a lightbulb appear over their head” motif in his comics… he only used it in real life.
The flood of Peanuts books continues
If you thought that the upcoming Peanuts book list was burdened in the past week, well, hey, it’s not stopping now! To reward Titan Books for actually supplying a cover, I’ll lead with their The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie (or whatever the title is, the cover image varies from …
Another book from the AAUGH Blogger
If all you’ve seen from me as an author are The Peanuts Collection and Classic Peanuts: Great Moments, you may think that all I’m capable of writing is books about Peanuts… but my next announced book isn’t about Peanuts! Instead, it’s about… Snoopy! That’s right: The Snoopy Treasures: An Illustrated Celebration of the …
Kiting some upcoming Peanuts book covers
The new batch of solicits currently flooding the system brings with it cover images for some previously announced books. Click on the covers to go preorder!
Is there such a thing as “too many Peanuts books”? NO!
It’s book solicitation season, and in particular it’s time for publishers that will be hitting for a period that not only reflects “books being issued for Christmas buying” but also “books surrounding The Peanuts Movie” and possibly “books celebrating the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas“. While we’ve seen few …
The happiest post of the year
Those of you who have carefully memorized all the AAUGH Blog entries know what’s coming when you see a title like “The happiest post of the year”, and yes, it’s true. The news is good. There is going to be a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Admittedly, this is …
Peanuts movie books and storybooks a-comin’!
As I’ve mentioned before, these big animated kid movies tend to be accompanied by a bunch of book tie-ins… and now that this fall’s solicitations are coming through, there looks to be a reasonable amount of Peanuts product in that regard. Often, the books are adaptations of a portion of …