Books in a box

Upcoming releases

Titan Comics has announced that March will bring us  Peanuts: The Classic Peanuts Collection, a boxed set of their reprints of the early Peanuts strip collections. This will include the volumes PeanutsMore Peanuts and  Good Ol’ Charlie Brown. All the fun of Peanuts books, combined with all the fun of a box!

(I am an old man flinching at the use of the term “graphic novels” to describe these books on that highlight point on the box.)

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 …

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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 …