The most valuable Peanuts book of all
Yesterday, I was guest speaker at my son Ben’s kindergarten class. I spent forty minutes in the morning telling them about how comic books are made and how you read them. I mentioned some of what I’ve worked on (Power Rangers got a good reaction) and what I am working …
The Snoopy Treasures cover
A cover image for my upcoming book, The Snoopy Treasures, has now been released, as you can see here. The images for the inside are still being worked on, but there should be plenty of them, so feel free to go ahead and preorder away!
This Peanuts book is a little puzzling
Coming in May is Peanuts My First Puzzle Book, which looks to be a book of jigsaw puzzles, much like that puzzle book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas that Hallmark put out last year. This one has five puzzles.
Who says Christmas comes but once a year?
Having already announced this year’s new book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas coming from Simon Spotlight (that link is for the Kindle edition, I don’t see one showing up for print yet), I am pleased to announced that there will also be a new edition coming from Running Press Kids. …
Crocheting beats quilting
Amazon is telling me that the Peanuts Crochet book and kit which was supposed to ship next month is instead showing up tomorrow! And Peanuts Quilted Celebrations, which was due last month, is instead slated to show up next week. But my mother used to quilt, and if there’s one thing …
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 …