British publisher Ravette, which has done a lot of Peanuts books over the years, including 40th and 50th anniversary books (You Don’t Look 40, Charlie Brown and You Really Don’t Look 50, Charlie Brown… both of which were primarily reprints of You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown) has a 60th …

Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz, the new bio for young adults, is now shipping.

The new volume of The Complete Peanuts is the start of the second half of the strip’s run, and (as the foreword by Robert Smigel accurately notes) it really does signal a switch in the series. The strip is less about anxiety, more about silliness. This is not a complete …

My Life with Charlie Brown is a collection of various prose essays that Schulz did for various publications, talking (generally) about Peanuts and his life as a cartoonist. For those studying Schulz, this is an interesting work. You’re apt to have seen much of the material before; the biggest chunk …

A couple photos which I took for, but which will not be used in, an upcoming project:

The NJ Star-Ledger ran an article on an exhibit about Schulz and the US Golf Association, an exhibit which I’d like to see. But while they spell “Schulz” correctly in the headline, that’s the only time which they do so, using one misspelling for the body of the article and …

The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 is shipping a bit early (no, this is not an April Fool’s joke.) Life is full, and I haven’t had a chance to complete reading my copy, but I will say that the introduction is probably my favorite of the series thus far. Robert Smigel’s rather …

Now available for preorder is Peanuts Portraits, a new album of old tracks, including some previously-unreleased takes. Some of it is pure Guaraldi, other parts are George Winston covering Guaraldi’s characters tunes. Peanuts FAQ maintainer Derrick Bang provides what they still apparently call “liner notes”, despite the facts that CDs …

My main computer is back home (yay!), and as I promised with my review of the re-release of Peanuts Philosophers, here’s a comparison of the size in the new edition and the old: Now shipping (early): My Life with Charlie Brown, where Charles Schulz’s writings about his own life are …

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Peanuts is a recently-released hardcover gift book. The format is pretty straightforward; on the left hand of most spreads is a topic one might need to learn about, and on the right hand is a Peanuts strip in which a characters demonstrates …