Trivia note: The supervillain Kite Man first appeared in a Batman story in 1960… but it wasn’t until a 1986 issue of Hawkman that writer Tony Isabella announced that his real name is Charles Brown.

A couple big pieces of news regarding the Peanuts projects that have been part of the Kaboom! line. Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, their collection of Peanuts stories, tributes, and parodies, is nominated for an Eisner Award (the “Oscar of comics”) for best anthology. (It’s not the only …

Here’s the cover for volume 8 of the collections of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series. This book, which drops in November (and is preorderable now) should include four issues of the comic book… but I’m not yet sure which ones. By the way things have been running, it should include …

First, a quick personal note – a few people took my comments about my dealing with a lot of life lately to assume (understandably) that something was wrong. No, it’s mostly good stuff, some frustrating stuff, nothing tragic. It’s just that February is proving to be overwhelmingly full. I appreciate …

So, you’re going to be snowed in all weekend with nothing to do? Well, you can spend the weekend reading the first five pages of issue 30 of the Peanuts comic book, which doesn’t hit comic shops until Wednesday. And you’ll have time to read them again and again and again! …

This is the cover to volume 7 of the collection of the Peanuts comic book, hitting comic shops in March, bookstores in April, and preorderable here.

Here are the opening pages from issue 20 of the KaBOOM! Peanuts comic book series, which will land in better comic book stores this Wednesday… which, by the way, would also be a good time to scour your comic shop for some last-minute Christmas gifts, and too-late Hannukah presents for your …

I just finished reading Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, and if I ever get called on to create material for a tribute book, I think I’ll start by reading this volume again. That’s because it contains a variety of takes of what it means to be doing a tribute. …

The Kaboom Peanuts comic book returns in December, with issue 29. This is the cover (minus the logos and such, naturally) The plot is described simply as “Peppermint Patty asks Charlie Brown to help out on her baseball team. “

Issue 28 of the Kaboom! Peanuts arrives Wednesday at comic books stores (well, the ones that carry it – but if you ask your local shop to start ordering one every month for you, they prob’ly will, most comic shops have pull-and-hold services where they’ll keep one set aside for you …