Someone named Gary visited a Costco in Portland, purchased two copies of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time — one for himself, one for a friend. He was then nice enough to snap a photo of the display and send it to me, author of said book. I'm just hoping the person at the exit who checks over purchases didn't mistake it for a case of toilet paper.
And I'm impressed that anyone was able to go anywhere in Portland. To hear our president tell it, the city is a hellscape of rioting and looting and buildings being burned and people being shot in the street…all by folks who didn't vote for him. I pray he sends in the National Guard to make it a safe place for decent human beings to go to Costco and buy my book.
If you're not near a Portland Costco or just plain afraid to leave your house, you can order it on Amazon or anywhere else. And if you're in certain northern parts of California, you can purchase one — and get it signed by me and its designer, Chip Kidd — in two weeks…
On Saturday, November 15, Chip and I and cartoonist Patrick McDonnell (the guy responsible for Mutts) and a few other superb cartoonists and Peanuts-related people will be at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. That's a place you must (must!) visit even when we aren't there if you have any love for or interest in Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Woodstock and all the rest.
On that day, there will also be a panel discussion about the book at 2 PM which I think requires a separate admission fee. But if you're there at all, you can buy the book and get it signed — and I think they'll even have some of my other books for sale and signing. All the details you need are on this page.
What's that you say? You can't get over to Santa Rosa that Saturday? Well, I and most of the same people will be hawking and writing their same names in the same book at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco the next day. Here is the page you need to visit to find out about that event on Sunday, November 16. Hope to see you — or, to be honest, anyone in a book-buying mood — at either event.