Ordering the Warm Blanket graphic novel

If you’re one of those folks who likes to order your books from your comic book store, tell them -now- that you want the graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, and tell them that it’s listed in “Previews Plus”, and the code is JAN118101. The shops have less than a week to place their orders (Kaboom is using not the standard solicitation system, but a system used for last-minute additions and adustments.)

The book will, however, also be coming through the standard book market, and the data should be getting out shortly (and then I’ll be able to provide links.) Interestingly (well, interesting to people like me, not to real human beings), Kaboom’s books are brought to the mass book market by Simon & Schuster, so in a way this is their return to the Peanuts animated adaptations market (S&S used to publish the adaptations, under their Little Simon imprint.)

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …