Running Press is unleashing two more Peanuts books in their line of animated adaptations… well, actually, it looks like it’s more like one new book, and one existing book in a new package. Coming in October is A Charlie Brown Christmas: A Book and Tree Kit. They’ve released their edition …

For the upcoming Schulz’s Youth book collecting Schulz’s teenager cartoons, we’re putting out both a hardcover and a paperback edition simultaneously. However, we’re not distributing the hardcover through the bookstore distribution system. It will be available through a few places that my publishing company deals directly with, but mostly it …

Coming this October is Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, a major new biographical work by David Michaelis (688 pages!). Both the hardcover and the audiobook are now available for preorder. And here’s a note on preorders: for a long time, I cautioned folks not to preorder at the first opportunity, …

Coming in October from Ballentine Books is Play It Again, Schroeder, a paperback strip collection. For those looking for strips about music (or at least about girls leaning on pianos), here you go! The title for this, as with the title for the TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown, …

I’ve made some additions to the AAUGH.com reference library. The least interesting of these is Just Fore Laughs, a collection of various (generally lackluster humorwise and occasionally poorly reproduced) golf-oriented comic strips, including a few Peanuts strips. The middlest interesting one is The Peanuts Guide to School Days, which is …

In the comic book business, we have this annual event called Free Comic Book Day. On that day (usually the first Saturday in May), anyone can walk into almost any comic book store worthy of the name and get a comic book for free. Now, you can’t get just any …

Usually, I don’t pay that much attention to Peanuts calendars, but someone on the alt.comics.peanuts newsgroup pointed out something that explained why I should be paying attention this year. The Peanuts Day-by-Day Calendar for 2007. Each day of the calendar reprints the strip from the same date in 1990…. which …

When I last showed you the cover of the upcoming book Schulz’s Youth, collecting Schulz’s teenager cartoons and other Warner Press work, it looked like this: Now, with perhaps some polishing still to go (or perhaps not), it looks like this:

As I sit here, the clock is clicking down the last few hours of 2006. So what does 2007 have to offer the Charles Schulz book fan? Well, there’s the usual themed Peanuts collections, probably some more gift books, and so forth. Amidst all these common boks, there are four …

Okay, I have a weakness for the odd translations that autmoatic translators can cough up. So I was looking around Joyo (the Chinese branch of Amazon), thinking about finally ordering that Chinese 25 volume Peanuts set (alas, apparently out of print), and when Google gave me this translation for the …