Discounting Charlie Brown’s politics
While Amazon is still listing Charlie Brown’s America at full cover price for preorder, the publisher is offering a discount on copies ordered from them…. if you have the secret discount code. Which I have now swiped from them, as part of my secret plans to cost them money and …
Trivial invasion
What is the latest craze for unlicensed print-on-demand and Kindle Peanuts books? Let’s take a look! All eight of these trivia books came out in the past 5 weeks. And all of them are pretty clearly unlicensed. Not that they don’t take copyright seriously, mind you. Copyright is a very …
Where did they misspell Schulz’s name this time?
Where did they misspell Schulz this time? This trademark registration, that’s where! (The name was part of the trademark because of the signature at Snoopy’s feet.)
Peanuts graphic novel chat
Here’s one for Peanuts book fans: a week from today, the Schulz Museum is hosting a Zoom panel with the creative team of the new adapted-from-an-unproduced-TV-special graphic novel Scotland Bound, Charlie Brown. More details can be found at Calendar of Events – Charles M. Schulz Museum
The other Peanuts
So it looks as though the same bozos who have been repeatedly publishing unlicensed Kindle collections of Peanuts works are also doing the same with Diary of a Wimpy Kid books… and labeling them as being Peanuts. (I’m not going to link in this case — my “hey, look at this!” …
Schulz’s Revenge
Charles Schulz gets his revenge on the comics field in the new hardcover Peanuts: DIE COMICS! Well, either that, or this is just the German translation of Peanuts Dell Archive. But do you dare assume that and risk missing out on something great?? (By the way, at the moment I …
Cover reveal: Penultimate Peanuts
This is the cover for the penultimate volume in the Peanuts Every Sunday series, featuring all the Sundays from 1991 through 1995. Yeah, I know cover reveals aren’t everyone’s favorite blog posts, but this one is pretty and spooky! If you click through on the link and use Amazon’s “Look …
I’m not sure if this proves the strength or weakness of communism
Some of you will remember my fascination with (and love of) the set of badly traced bootleg Peanuts from communist-era Poland. It was while chasing after more on this that I came upon something that might be even more amazing. Something I have instant love for, from the same …
Cover reveal: Snoopy’s Happy Tales
We now have a cover for Snoopy’s Happy Tales, the upcoming hardcover collecting five of those thing storybooks into one thicker volume. The book will be shipping at the end of August.
Fantagraphics discount weekend
Fantagraphics (publisher of The Complete Peanuts and Peanuts Every Sunday, as well as many other fine books both Peanuts and non) is running a deal this weekend – for every $50 worth of books you order from them, you get a credit for $50 on a future order. Details here.