Comic book Peanuts

The Beagle lands tomorrow, read it today

Appearing in better comic book stores tomorrow and already winging its way to folks who preordered it from Amazon (where you can still order it at a good price is the new Peanuts graphic novel The Beagle Has Landed… and here, for your previewing pleasure, is a full ten story pages …

Comic book Peanuts

Peanuts 18

Coming tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) to better comic book stores is issue 18 of the Peanuts comic book. This issue has (in addition to the stories “Dance Craze” and “Blind as  a Bat” and a reprint of a four-daily-strip baseball sequence arranged in the centerfold so it can be removed …

Comic book Peanuts

Return of the alternate covers

After having taken a break from issuing rarer alternative covers for each issue of their Peanuts comic book, Kaboom has returned to the practice with the most recent issue, #17. Once again, they are doing “first appearance” covers, but starting with this one, it’s the first appearance of a phrase. …

Comic book Peanuts

Steep Grade Ahead

The solicitation for issue 18 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book is out: All Sally wanted was to return to school and continue where she left off. Nobody told her that every single year she would have to break in a whole new set of teachers! How can she progress …

Comic book Peanuts

Pacing the Peanuts comics book stories

On the Peanuts comic book stories I’ve written, I’ve tried to make them, well, as Peanutsy as possible. I may want the individual gags to feel fresh, like you haven’t heard them before, but the experience of reading them should ideally feel like you are experiencing more of what you’ve …

Comic book Peanuts

Modern psychiatric methods

Once again, a look at the cover to an upcoming issue of the Kaboom Peanuts comic book. This is issue 16, which is supposed to land in your laps in February. I rather like this cover, based on a panel from the strip, because it’s a gag that’s funny now …

Comic book Peanuts

Upcoming Nat stories – and a free offer

So yesterday, Peanuts 12 came out with my longest Peanuts story, “Movie Time”. For those of you who preorder your comic books (which is some of you) and for those of you who buy your Peanuts comics based on whether or not there’s a Nat Gertler story in them (which …

Comic book Peanuts

I have no issue with an issue not having me

I just learned that issue 11 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series (coming out later this month) will not have any of my stories in it. I’m only pointing this out because I didn’t want anyone buying the issue, not seeing a story from me, and assuming that I’m …