Where Beagles Dare!

Looks like a new original graphic novel called Where Beagles Dare! is going to be hitting the market in September 15, which the publisher is promoting as being “in the same style we’ll see them on the silver screen”, but judging by the preview up at the Los Angeles Times website, the volume written by Jason Cooper with art by Vicki Scott will actually look like Vicki Scott’s previous Peanuts work… which ain’t a bad thing!

 

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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 …