Fall Fantagraphics books

The solicitations have hit for this fall’s Peanuts books from Fantagraphics. There are no unexpected books here, but there are a couple pieces of good news. One is that they’re doing box sets of Peanuts Every Sunday, which means that if you wait, you should be able to save a few bucks (the list price for a boxed set is about 25% less than the list price for the individual volumes). It also means that you’re going to need just that much bigger a bookshelf to put them on, to include the extra height of the box. The other bit of news is that Paul Feig is writing the intro for this fall’s Complete Peanuts volume, which is a choice that makes me happy. While these days he’s better known for the films he directs (BridesmaidsThe Heat, the upcoming Ghostbusters) than his prose, what I’ve read of the latter is quite worth checking out… and he is a producer of the upcoming The Peanuts Movie.

Here’s the list:

September

November

All those links are for preorders, hint hint.

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 …

Upcoming releases
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 …