Free Peanuts comic book coming next year

One of my favorite holidays each year is Free Comic Book Day, a day on which comic book shops throughout the English-speaking world give out free special-edition comic books. Free comic books – which of those words is not to like? Well, this year Boom Studios will be offering a Peanuts comic book… actually, a double-sided comic with Peanuts on one side and comics based on the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time on the other. The cover on the Peanuts side is basically the same cover as the issue 0 of Peanuts that came out recently. I doubt it will have any new material; as Free Comic Book Day is now affixed to the first Sunday in May, this should be coming out after the fourth issue of their Peanuts comic book, in time to promote the book collection.

(Regular readers will recall that this is not the first Peanuts comic book on Free Comic Book Day, as Fantagraphics released Unseen Peanuts a few years back to promote The Complete Peanuts. Unlike that one, the new book has been accepted as a “gold level” book, which means that you can expect almost every store participating in Free Comic Book Day to get at least some copies.)

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 …

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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 …

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 …