More Peanuts comic books en route

Upcoming releases

Coming up starting in August are four more monthly issues of Peanuts comic books from Kaboom. They are restarting with issue #1 again, calling this “volume 2”.

As with volume 1, each issue will have a rarer alternative cover edition, featuring a Peanuts character as they looked at their debut. Issue 1’s will have Schroeder, while issue 2’s will bear Pig-Pen.

As I mentioned last week, the book collecting these four issues is already available for preorder.

Upcoming releases
2025 in Peanuts

Happy New Year, all you AAUGH Blog Readers! 2025 has come, like it or not, and it brings with it the 75th anniversary of Peanuts! Now, we’ve seen at least some attempts to play off 0f the big anniversary year since at least last summer, more than a full year …

Upcoming releases
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 …

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 …