You can add Charles Schulz to the long list of artists who have been featured in IDW's Artist's Edition series. Along with the Jim Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America editions, the Dave Gibbons Watchmen edition and Jack Kirby's New Gods edition came the news that IDW will release a Peanuts Artist's Edition.

"Having grown up with Charlie Brown, Linus and his blanket, Snoopy and the Red Baron...I could not be happier about bringing them into the IDW family," said Ted Adams, CEO and Publisher of IDW Publishing, in a press release. "In the world of comic art, it does not get any bigger than Peanuts."

This is the first Artist's Edition to feature a comic strip, and there's no word yet on which strips it will feature or when it will come out. IDW joins two other comic publishers who are licensed to produce Peanuts comics. Fantagraphics currently is reprinting the entire run of Peanuts by year, while BOOM! Studios produces new Peanuts comics.

IDW's Artist's Editions are printed the same size as the original art. While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in COLOR to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art-for example, you are able to clearly see paste-overs, blue pencils in the art, editorial notes, art corrections. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the paper selected is as close as possible to the original art board.