signed and numbered Warm Blanket graphic novels

Those of you in the San Francisco Bay area can head over to WonderCon, which in my experience is a fairly good comics convention (I shan’t be there this year, though.) And if you’re there on Saturday, you can stop by the Boom Studios booth and buy yourself one of 100 numbered copies of the hardcover Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown graphic novel adaptation, signed by artists Bob Scott and Vicki Scott. I don’t know whether there’s any printed differences in these copies, or whether the “edition”-ness is all in the signatures, but they’re charging just the cover price – $19.99 – for these copies. They go on sale at 2 PM, and stay on sale until 4 or until supplies run out, whichever comes first. The booth number is 415. Tell them Nat Gertler sent you, and they’ll… well, they’ll probably look at you funny, that’s about it. Do it anyway.

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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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 …