Charlie Brown cover

This is the announced cover for next March’s collection of stories from the recent Peanuts comic book series. The book has been announced as “Charles M. Schulz’ Charlie Brown,” although this cover does not reflect that possessive.

Also curious: the product details at Amazon list includes:

  • Publisher: KaBOOM!; Not for Online edition (March 13, 2018)

“Not for Online edition?” Does that mean no ebook, or it’s not supposed to be on Amazon, or…? I’ve not a clue.

Upcoming releases
A box of squares

This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes: A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween …

Upcoming releases
Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …

Upcoming releases
An unauthorized? biography

In the past, I’ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the …