This year’s Kaboom! Summer Blast! comic book, given away at comic book shops yesterday, includes the five-page story How To Be A World-Famous Author by Vicki Scott and Paige Braddock, reprinted from issue 14 of volume 2 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book, as well as a one Sunday strip reprint. The new book Alice in Comicland, a collection of Alice In Wonderland appearances in comics form, includes two Peanuts Sunday strips (shot from the original art – the publisher on this is the same one producing the upcoming Peanuts Artist’s Edition) plus Schulz recreation of a page of Alice In Wonderland with Lucy and the Cheshire Beagle, from a 1973 issue of The Cartoonist. Seeing as the Summer Blast was free and the well-produced hardcover Alice book was twenty-some dollars, it’s easier to justify getting the free book just for the Peanuts content… but the Alice book has a lot of other stuff as well, including 12 pages of Walt Kelly… five of which (an adaptation of Humpty Dumpty reciting a poem) have not seen print before.

(By the way, that Peanuts Artist’s Edition is still available on the pre-order deal; Amazon had been a little, shall we say, enthusiastic on when they expected it to ship. It has not yet gotten out the door.)

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