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.
I just can’t find the right words for this.
Some among the Peanuts fandom may miss the Snoopy magazine of the 1980s, bring an officially licensed Peanuts item into their mailbox on a regular basis. And the ending of the Peanuts comic book a few years back meant the end of going to the comic shop on a regular …
Cover Taffairs
We’ve got the cover for some of this fall’s books. The cover for the paperback version of The Complete Peanuts volume 16, including all the strips from 1981 and 1982, has a rather pleasing set of colors… but what is up with that font? It looks like the font that …
Christmas is still here!
I finally remembered to pick up Christmas is Here! Holiday Gift Set, which packages a stuffed Snoopy wearing a stocking cap (yes, it’s hard to see when it’s in the box, but it is there) with a “Look-and-Find” board book. (It says that it’s a “First Look and Find”; perhaps that …
Ken Kelly dies
ABC News is reporting that Black space engineer, housing advocate Ken Kelly dies at 92. Ken’s place in the Peanuts world is that when Harriet Glickman was trying to convince Schulz to add an African-American character to Peanuts and Schulz was dubious about how that would be accepted, Ken was the …
Some things age badly, quickly
When this title came out in 2019, it sounded like a positive thing! Stay safe, everybody.
Peanuts book bargains
A couple folks have pointed me to good discounts lately that I really should have reported… but here’s a couple that I’m reporting now. Barnes & Noble has one of those big beautiful hardcovers reprinting Peanuts Sundays in full color – the Peanuts Every Sunday series – for just $15, …