Michael Cavna, a reporter over at THE WASHINGTON POST Newspaper Blog, recently posted a book review for Chip Kidd’s latest book, “ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of the Peanuts” (Published by Abrams and in stores now). The focus of the article is the 65th anniversary of the famous comic strip and it is loaded with a ton of great photos/graphics for you to enjoy. So, please check it out sometime, just CLICK HERE!!

In a recent article in their “Arts and Entertainment” section the HERALD SCOTLAND Newspaper interviewed Designer & Author Chip Kidd about his latest book, “ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of the Peanuts” (Abrams), which is in stores now.

They discuss Chip Kidd having total access to the Charles M. Schulz Museum Archives and the task of how to properly handle so much incredible reference material, the design process, and honoring the legacy of Mr. Schulz as an Artist. They also briefly talk about the new 3D PEANUTS movie that just hit theaters.

The article is really wonderful and you can read it by clicking RIGHT HERE!

WOW! It looks like Maria Popova has done it again! Maria is the Author of the world famous BRAIN PICKINGS Blog and she just wrote a wonderful feature on Chip Kidd’s latest book, ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of the Peanuts. This book was published by Abrams and is in stores now. So, the timing is perfect, ha!

BRAIN PICKINGS is always ultra-informative and extremely entertaining, so please be sure to read what they said about this new book and while you’re there think about maybe making a donation. That is how they keep that site going (they have NO ads). Just CLICK HERE!

If you’re a fan of the PEANUTS Comic Strip then you gotta be familiar with Chip Kidd’s latest book, ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of the Peanuts (Abrams). It has been getting some amazing press (Thank God) and here is a very good example. Please check out this LINK to an in-depth discussion that Chip Kidd recently had with the Houston Chronicle.

We wanna thank them for a wonderful interview and we wanna share it with you. So, please CLICK HERE!

We’re really excited to see that Chip Kidd’s latest book, ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of the Peanuts (Abrams), is getting some serious international attention! Yes, the TELEGRAPH UK Newspaper Website has written a wonderful book review and we want to invite everyone to go check it out!!

Here’s a LINK to give it a quick read & please be sure to share it on your favorite social media!

Here’s a quick shout out to let everyone know that Chip Kidd is still teaching Graphic Design Classes, online, at SKILLSHARE. The way it’s designed you can pretty much join-in anytime you want. Classes are getting full, so please be sure to enroll now.

The course is titled, “Introduction to Book Cover Design: Making Stories Visual” and it covers all the aspects of Book Cover Design along with many helpful tips for both new Designers and Authors.

For more information, or to enroll today, just CLICK HERE!

Jeff Kinney, author of the hugely popular Wimpy Kid series for kids, is, like lots of people, a big fan of Peanuts and the comic strip’s creator, Charles M. Schulz.

Kinney has written the introduction to Chip Kidd’s new book, Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts (Abrams Comic Arts), which USA TODAY offers as an exclusive excerpt if you follow this LINK. In it, Kinney talks about loving Peanuts as a kid reading the comics page, and how Schulz inspired him to become a cartoonist.

The books comes out on October 20th, so it should be in stores now. Here’s what the book cover looks like and, if you love the artwork of Charles M. Schulz (who doesn’t??), then the inside is loaded with tons of eye candy!

Yes, Turkey!! The Graphic Novel, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics), written by Designer Chip Kidd and delightfully illustrated by the UK Comic Book Artist Dave Taylor, has been translated into the Turkish language for the book market of Turkey! Oh man, how freakin’ cool is that?!! Here’s what the cover looks like in their language, it’s actually very beautiful, the translation from English reads, “Batman: Olumcul Oasarim”. Oh yeah, if you would like to try and order a copy of this hardcover book then here is a LINK.

Also, speaking of “links”, here are two Turkish websites that have written reviews for this book. Just click HERE and HERE!

Right now you can view the 2015 ABRAMS COMICARTS online catalog for FREE!! I mean, hey it’s posted right down below!! Also, the thing that is ultra cool is that the front cover graphic this year celebrates the Brand-New Hardcover Book coming out October 20th by Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear titled, ONLY WHAT’S NECESSARY: CHARLES M. SCHULZ AND THE ART OF PEANUTS (Abrams).

ABRAMS COMICARTS publishes high quality, contemporary, groundbreaking illustrated books about the legends and history of comics art, animation, and cartoon-based material, as well as new graphic novels. Don’t belive us? Well, just check out the new catalog of books down below!

Here’s some fun news to report. An article about Chip Kidd was recently featured in the Artsbeat section of THE SUNDAY GUARDIAN. Now, the thing that makes it so unique is that this newspaper is located in Sri Lanka! Yes, that is the country of India, WOW! (So very cool! I mean, how fun is that?!) It was written by Aditya Mani Jha. It’s very insightful and they have some nice graphics too. Thanks guys.

So, GO check it out sometime, just CLICK HERE!

The Author, Editor, & Designer Chip Kidd will be making a ton of appearances at this year’s 2015 San Diego Comic Con! The SDCC event runs from Thursday, July 9th, until Sunday, July 12th. For a complete schedule please be sure to visit the NEXT APPEARANCE page.

Chip will be there to promote “Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts”. It will be published by Abrams ComicArts and is coming out on October 20th, 2015.

Also - Chip Kidd, along with his two co-authors, Anne Ishii & Graham Kolbeins, are all nominated for an EISNER AWARD in the “Best Anthology” category for their new book, “Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It”, published by Fantagraphics (out now)!!

We have done our best to list all of Chip’s lectures, speaking engagements, book signings, and other events at his NEXT APPEARANCES page and we knew we would not have the space to list them here so please be sure to visit that page.

Here’s a quick post to share some totally awesome artwork by the kick ass Editorial Cartoonist, Ward Sutton. He drew this “MAD BATMEN” parody cover on an actual DC Comics’ BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE Variant Comic Book (blank-white with logo) for a special project that Chip Kidd is creating.

Right now Chip is in the process of collecting many different pieces of original art all revolving around the Batman character and if you want to find out more then stay tuned to CHIPKIDD.COM for future updates.

Oh yeah, in the meantime, if you want to enjoy more artwork by Ward Sutton then please just CLICK HERE!

Over at the always insightful TIME Magazine website (Yes, in today’s digital world TIME still exists!) a reporter named Sarah Begley ran a short interview with Knopf Book designer Chip Kidd about a few of his favorite book covers of all time and asked him, “to judge them”. Of course this question was meant to be tied into Chip’s latest book titled, “Judge This (TED Books)” that just came out and was published by Simon & Schuster as a part of their TED TALK Book Series.

As kind of a joke for this post I made a parody graphic of one of the famous covers that Chip talks about in the TIME interview, Detective Comics #27, which we all know as the very first appearance of the Batman!

To see other book covers he chose and to read Sarah Begley’s article on Chip Kidd, please CLICK HERE!

Just a quick post to share this fun photo from a friend who saw Chip Kidd’s design work at a Hastings Book Store location! As mentioned here, Chip designed a special set of “Variant” book covers for the CONVERGENCE Story line that is affecting all the superhero characters in the DC Comics universe.

All the books published had two covers, one done with the regular cover, and another printing with Chip’s design. These “Variant” covers featured the characterin a magnified view with a “color shadow” bleeding off the edge. Each week (for 4 weeks, this promo ran a whole month) the colors changed from Cyan (Blue), Fushia (Hot Pink), Bright Yellow, and then to Black.

In this photo we see some of the Cyan Blue ones from the very first week…. so cool!

Here’s a quick post to share some super fun book publishing news! Neil Gaiman’s MAKE GOOD ART Speech Book, designed inside and out by the Graphic Designer Chip Kidd, has now been translated into Portuguese for the book market of Brazil! It’s new title is “O Discurso Faça Boa Arte de Neil Gaiman”!

One last note, you can purchase this book by visiting this Brazilian WEBSITE!