Happiness Is (cartoon)
"Happiness Is..." is a book and merchandise series based on the cartoon created by New York Times Bestselling authors.[1] Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar, which features a series of single frame images of "What makes you happy?"
It was launched on Facebook while the couple were living in Sayulita, Mexico, in July 2013. As of August 2016, there were over 8,500 images in the collection, and the Facebook page had over 3.0 million followers.[2]
Chronicle Books of San Francisco owns global book rights, and are publishing over 8 books from 2014 to 2018.[3] Chronicle Books is also the current licensee of global merchandising rights.[4]
Published works in the "Happiness Is...series
BOOK 1: HAPPINESS IS...500 Things to be Happy About
- US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2014)
- India: Penguin Books/Random House (2014)
- Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2014)
- Korea: Indigo (2014)
- Japan: Bunkyosha Co (2015)
- Germany: Fischer Verlag (2015)
- Indonesia: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama (2015)
- China: United Sky New Media (2015)
- Argentina: Catapulta Editores (2015)
- France: Editions 365 (2016)
- Russia: Kariera Press (2016)
- Hungary: HVG Könyvek (2016)
- Vietnam: AZ Communication (2016)
- Spanish-speaking world excl. Argentina: Plaza y Janes/Penguin Random House (2016)
- Holland: ZNU (2017)
- Bulgaria: Ciela Norma AD (2017)
- Dutch: ZNU (2017)
- Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing (2017)
- Turkish: Pegasus Publishing House (2017)
BOOK 2: FRIENDSHIP IS...500 Reasons to Appreciate Friends
- US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2014)
- Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2015)
- China: United Sky New Media (2015)
- Argentina: Catapulta Editores (2015)
- Japan: Bunkyosha Co. Ltd. (2015)
- Russia: Kariera Press (2016)
- Germany: Fischer Verlag (2016)
- Indonesia: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama (2016)
- Vietnam: AZ Communication (2016)
- Spanish-speaking world excl. Argentina: Plaza y Janes/Penguin Random House (2016)
- Holland: ZNU (2017)
- Turkish: Pegasus Publishing House (2017)
BOOK 3: HAPPINESS IS...500 ways to be in the moment
- US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2016)
- Vietnam: AZ Communication (2016)
- Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2017)
- Vietnam: AZ Communication (2017)
BOOK 4: HAPPINESS IS...500 ways to show I love you
- US & Canada: Chronicle Books (2016)
- Italy: Sperling & Kupfer (2017)
References
- ↑ "New York Times Bestseller List March 2015". New York Times. 2015-03-31. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
- ↑ "Happiness redefined". TH. 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- ↑ "'Happiness' illustrator Ralph Lazar finds the humor in life". Marin IJ. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- ↑ "Chronicle Books Commits to Happiness". Licensing Magazine. 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-08-05.