The Beagle has Landed cover

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beagleHere’s the actual cover art for the coming-in-June original graphics novel The Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown, obviously much more appropriate than the not-the-real-cover that Amazon is still showing. But one thing that the Amazon site has very right at the moment is the price… as I check it, it’s $6.31, which is a sweet number for a 96-page full-color book. Of course, being Amazon, the price may vary at any minute… but as the book doesn’t come out for weeks, you can order now and lock in the lowest price that pops up until then.

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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 …