This cover is a Peanuts trivia quiz

Upcoming releases

This is, apparently, the real cover to Peanuts Volume 1, the upcoming collection of the recent Peanuts comic book run… or at least realer than the fill-in image they had (they’ve previously been showing the cover to Peanuts issue zero as the cover… including the $1 price. Sadly, this will cost more than a buck.)

So, can you name all the characters? Do they all even have names?

It is, of course, available for preorder (and I always recommend preordering, because you’ll get the lowest price listed between now and the time of publication.)

By the way – the software I had linking the blog to Facebook? It was causing the entire blog to be uneditable (I suspect it’s tied to whatever’s bogging down Facebook’s comment system at the moment.) As such, I’ll be posting this and other upcoming messages separately on the blog and Facebook… which means Facebook comments on these posts will not be eventually integrated into the blog. Oh, technology, why must you hurt me so?

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 …

Upcoming releases
An unauthorized? biography

In the past, I’ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the …