Fewer and fewer
After getting 5 packages with Peanuts books in them yesterday, I only received two today. And tomorrow, I’m only expecting one… but that one will have three books in it, so I guess that’s okay. If it keeps up at this rate, I will be dead by this time next …
A Classic Treasury from Down Under
Coming in November is Peanuts: Classic Treasury Volume 1, which appears to be a 304 page hardcover reprint covering selections from the first half of the run of the strip. This is being published by Australian publisher Five Mile Press, but it is listed on Amazon, so I guess that it’s …
It seems to be the season…
I got five separate envelopes with Peanuts books in them today. I’m only expecting two tomorrow.
Peanuts 21 preview
Issue 21 of Kaboom!’s Peanuts comic book hits better comic book stores on Wednesday. Here’s a preview (click each page to enlarge):
New Art of Peanuts book
Coming next fall is another book by Chip Kidd (the man who brought us Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz). This 240 page hardcover has been announced both as The Art of Peanuts and as Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts. Published by Abrams ComicArts, the book will include two posters. Kidd …
Paint-by-Number Kit now shipping
That Barnes&Noble-exclusive Classic Peanuts Paint-by-Number Kit including the Classic Peanuts: Great Moments book that I wrote is now shipping. I haven’t gotten my comp copies yet, so I can’t review it, but we can simply assume that it’s brilliant, moving, and a sure candidate for all the major book awards this year, right? Right?? …
The new gift books
I’ve received my copies of the new gift books Good Grief, It’s Your Birthday! and Cheer Up, Charlie Brown!, both of which are full-color mixtures of relevant quotes and strips. They’re fairly smoothly made, and should serve their purposes as much-more-than-a-card for someone going through something. The Birthday book focuses on quotes …
No poetry from Johnny
Regarding my comment on the oddness of Johnny Carson’s Happiness is a Warm Puppy-riffing book Happiness is a Dry Martini being copyrighted by “Cory-Richard Music, Inc.”, AAUGH Blog reader Jim noted that there is a much easier explanation for that name than being a reference to the classic poem. Cory and Richard …
Halloween Projects Kindle book
The new Kindle book Halloween Projects for the Family by KIngs R.C. (capitalization theirs, although they drop the oddity when they list the name inside as “R.C., Kings”) includes chapters on making Charlie Brown, Woodstock, Snoopy, and “Cool Snoopy”. It does not appear to be a licensed item.
Golden Brown
The sixty-fifth anniversary of Peanuts lineup has been joined by another volume, the paperback You’re Golden, Charlie Brown: 65 Years of Peanuts, which will come from Ballantine Books next June and can be preordered now.