It’s Flashbeagle time!

Yes, because you’ve been demanding it, Flashbeagle will finally be coming to all-digital DVD! It’s not getting the full respect it’s due – it’s the bonus episode on the disk, adding content to Snoopy’s Reunion – but it is there in all its Flashbeagly glory! Coming out in April, available for preorder now.

And yes, today is the official release date of You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown, featuring the DVD featurette in which I appear. And the reviews are already pouring in. One review even went so far as to say “Great tie, Nat!” What more could one want in a review? Truly, has even the outstanding Morgan Freeman ever gotten a review of “great tie”? I think not!

I’ve actually been invited to take place in the featurettes for some upcoming DVDs. That is the power of a first-class tie.

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 …