Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2023 release.
Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,
though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.
Unsupervised: A Crabgrass Comics Adventure
Out of Line: The Graphic Humor of D. Watson
How to Make Money Writing for Comics Magazines (new printing)
Everything’s Coming Up Beatrix!: A Breaking Cat News Adventure
The New Nancy: Flexible and Relatable Daily Comics in the Twenty-First Century
Treasure Chest Volume One (1946)
Parenting Is Weird: Tails from the Litterbox
I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee
Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics (paperback edition)
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (exceprt)
The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance
The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1
Keep It Down Up There!: The Everyday Shenanigans of Noisy Neighbors
Sergio Aragonés Groo: Gods Against Groo
Robert Williams: Conversations
The Chillingly Weird Art Of Matt Fox
Some absent from the August list:
The Collective Unconscience of Odd Bodkins: Anniversary Edition
Block Party: a Next Door Neighbors collection
Krazy Kat: 1924 Daily Strips. Revised Edition
Stuck on a Wall: A Collection of Humorous Gag Cartoons and Illustrations
Bob the Angry Flower: Different Dooms DELUXE
Back to September for a few more:
Alley Oop and The Monarchs of Gorp
The Super Hero’s Journey (signed edition)
Midnight Snack: A Zits Collection
featured image © Bill Whitehead
Thanks DD for keeping up with these newly published books; I really appreciate your efforts. One question: I notice two books here that seem to be comic strip reprints (of Crabgrass and Breaking Cat News) that are being marketed as “Comics Adventure”s. Is this just a gimmick to make people think it is new material? Cuz the sample pages sure look like strips from the regular series. Maybe there’s new material added pulling the strips together into a story? Or do these strips actually have an ongoing storyline — sorry, neither of them is on my regular reading list.
The comic strips these days do have ongoing storylines – longer than the one or two week stories that used to be the norm (Crabgrass just finished a five week continuity. the current Phoebe and Her Unicorn story began in the first half of July). The longer plots are usually separated by a week or two of gag strips – sometimes connected, sometimes not.
As to the “adventure” designation … I’d like to say that Andrews McMeel uses that for their comic book-sized (width & height) paperbacks but some, like last month’s Big Nate, do not carry that classification.
And, yes, they are reprints of earlier newspaper strips. Don’t know if they add exra art like Walt Kelly did with his Pogo books.