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Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2025 release (or so).
Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,
though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.
With the post title and the opening strip I guess I’d best start off with a Peanuts book. Or two.
Snoopy, the Story of My Life by Charles Schulz and Andrew Farago
Learn all about Snoopy’s family, his early life at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, his travels, and his first owner (not Charlie Brown!) and more in this complete history as told by Snoopy himself in the classic Peanuts comic strip.
This comprehensive guide to Snoopy also includes a travelogue and a list of some of the personas that Snoopy adopted over the years, including the World Famous Attorney, the World War I Flying Ace, the Fierce Vulture (his very first alter ego!), and the ultimate Big Man on Campus himself, Joe Cool.
Peanuts All Year-Round Mini Collection by Charles M. Schulz
Our newest Peanuts box set presents five of our bestselling seasonally themed mini hardcovers packed with fun and laughs!
Books included in this set:
- A Valentine for Charlie Brown — From Charlie Brown opening an empty mailbox every February 14th to Sally Brown and her “sweet baboo” Linus, this book reminds us of just what love is all about, for better and for worse!
- Batter Up, Charlie Brown! — This charming collection features three complete baseball stories starring good ol’ Charlie Brown and his frustrating (and frustrated) teammates Lucy, Linus, Pigpen, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang.
- Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for over 50 years thanks to the animated television special, and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips (1959-1962) collected in this fun-sized book.
- Snoopy’s Thanksgiving — This collection of Snoopy and Thanksgiving themed strips is perfect for anyone whose idea of the holiday is more Charlie Brown than Norman Rockwell.
- Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking — This adorable little book collects two of his best “extras” from the 1960s: two Christmas-themed stories written and drawn for national magazines.
Books included in this set:
- A Valentine for Charlie Brown — From Charlie Brown opening an empty mailbox every February 14th to Sally Brown and her “sweet baboo” Linus…
- Batter Up, Charlie Brown! — This charming collection features three complete baseball stories starring good ol’ Charlie Brown and his frustrating (and frustrated) teammates…
- Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for over 50 years … and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips (1959-1962) collected in this fun-sized book.
- Snoopy’s Thanksgiving — This collection of Snoopy and Thanksgiving themed strips is perfect for anyone whose idea of the holiday is more Charlie Brown than Norman Rockwell.
- Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking — This adorable little book collects two of his best “extras” from the 1960s: two Christmas-themed stories written and drawn for national magazines…
… this 120-page issue features a portfolio of pre-EC art by Jack Davis, an interview with the legendary publisher of the 1960s and 1970s prozine (and first-generation EC fan) Bill Spicer, a portfolio of Gary Arlington’s “What If?” EC covers released as part of his 1970s Nickel Library series, an article on collecting Humbug/Harvey Kurtzman-related collectibles, a 1958 interview with Kurtzman conducted by John Benson and Larry Ivie, another installment of “The EC Collector,” an interview with the notorious Dr. Fredric Wertham about his final book, The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication, a vintage 1967 visit with Frank Frazetta, and much more!
The Addams Family: 30 Deluxe Postcards: Revised Edition by Charles Addams
This amazing box set contains 30 collectible, frameable, and mailable deluxe postcards of The Addams Family original drawings. All the members of pop culture’s scariest and funniest family—Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Pugsley, Grandmama, Lurch the butler, and the famous Wednesday––feature in this collection of cartoons selected from among Chas Addams’s most biting artworks for The New Yorker.
Alley Oop and King Solomon’s Mines by V. T. Hamlin
Daily strips, 1944. Alley Oop has lost his memory! Why is he surrounded by cats? How will he find King Solomon’s Mines? And can he be brought back home by the Caveman Rescue Squad? And if that weren’t enough, when Alley’s giant pet dinosaur gets sick it’s even more mayhem! Wonderful wartme work by Hamlin, at the height of his art skills and his storytelling prowess.
Alley Oop and The Mad Mod Mechanical Man by Dave Graue and V. T. Hamlin
The entire 1971 Daily Strips. A mysterious dome turns up in Moo and it’s populated by strange aliens with spots…from a distant planet. Alley and Oola are taken prisoner. A mechanical pteradactyl has our heroes flying around Moo with Oscar Boom. The professor adopts a mechanical man with a mind of his own. Crooks in their own time machine first try to rip off the Professor, but Alley cuts them down to size…and they escape in their time machine…back to Moo. Gonna be trouble there!
Molly and the Bear: Campers Beware by Bob Scott and Vicki Scott
Molly and Bear go on a family camping trip in this second book in the Molly and the Bear middle grade graphic novel series based on the beloved comic strip “Bear with Me” by Bob Scott.
Molly and her family are excited about their annual summer camping trip. Well, except Molly’s dad, who didn’t want Bear to come. Molly would have thought her 800-pound bestie would be right at home in the woods, but the scaredy bear is terrified of campfires, rafting, spooky sounds that come from the woods at night, and most of all, other bears.
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus by Art Spiegelman (review)
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published decades ago.
He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process.
Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.
The Second World War in Cartoons compiled and annotated by Tim Benson
The Second World War in Cartoons begins in the 1930s with events in Germany and the Rhineland and the slow march to war. This is followed by the inevitable references to the Phoney War and to Hitler’s ‘Sink-on-Sight Navy’ after the Graf Speen had been scuttled by her captain.
A more serious tone is undertaken during Britain’s darkest hour, the cartoons reflecting Churchill’s stubborn determination to resist and encouraging the fighter boys to stop Hitler. Gradually, the mood changes as the UK’s strategic position improves. When the war ended in Europe, a cartoon of Germany depicts a notice ‘Under New Management’.
Churchill’s defeat in the 1945 election resulted in one cartoonist declaring that Britain had ‘dropped its pilot’ and, ever a cartoonist favourite character, among the final images is that of Churchill declaring an Iron Curtain had descended across the Continent, as the Cold War took its grip.
Each of these wonderful cartoons is provided with a full explanation of the background to each one, and its relevant to the events of the day.
Bob the Angry Flower: The Machines by Stephen Notley (review)
Robots rave! Synthetic intelligences unite to praise Bob the Angry Flower: The Machines, the impossible 14th Bob the Angry Flower collection. Machines of all kinds abound in our world, be they robot, Large Language Model, human person or simple tool, and Bob the Angry Flower takes the tussle directly to them in this ferocious volume stuffed with kaiju, politics, lies, scifi and more. PLUS: a foreword by everyone’s favorite non-mentality, Chat GPT! It is highly inadvisable to miss this book!
The Cisco Kid Volume 8 1966-1968 by Rod Reed and Jose Luis Salinas
Classic Comics Press completes its reprinting of the complete run of The Cisco Kid, written by Rod Reed and masterfully drawn by Jose Luis Salinas. Volume 8 reprints dailies from 1966 to 1968.
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by Eike Exner
The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the first to tell the history of comics in Japan as a single, continuous story, focusing on manga as multipanel cartoons that show stories rather than narrate them. Eike Exner traces these cartoons’ gradual evolution from the 1890s until today, culminating in manga’s explosion in global popularity in the 2000s and the current shift from print periodicals to digital media and smartphone apps.
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s Great Mystery and Adventure Series illustrated by Nicholas Afonsky (as “Meetrich”), script adaptations by N. Brewster Morse and Ruth Jane Williams (preview)
…there was the Great Mystery and Adventure Series, the first-ever adaptation of classic literature to comics form. It spawned a host of imitators and launched an entire genre that included the highly-regarded Classics Illustrated comic books.
This material has been unavailable in any form for 100 years. But now for the first time since its original publication, JD Press is proud to offer the complete Great Mystery and Adventure Series and its successor, the Famous Short Story Series. Thrill then to ten tales by the world’s greatest authors, originally presented by comics innovator Wheeler-Nicholson and lovingly rendered by artist Nicholas Afonsky (Little Annie Rooney).
Included in this volume are essays providing in-depth historical context, written by comics historians Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson (granddaughter of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson) and Jim Davidson.
The Little Book of Big Girl Things by Akshara Ashok
This book is not for kids. It’s for sad (adult) girlies.
Do you ever wonder how everyone knows what they should be doing? Everyone around you is talking about getting married or investing in the stock market and your biggest worry is, ‘What’s for dinner? . . . Oh and did I leave the stove on?’
If this sounds like you, you’ve picked up the right book. Wait. . . this isn’t a manual on how to get better at adulting because I’m clearly not very good at it. It’s a collection of silly and serious comics that’ll make you go, ‘OH! So this happens to everyone? I guess I’m not alone in this’. That’s something, right?
This book discusses everything from everyday problems that comes with being a girlie to depression, anxiety, body image, getting help & self-discovery. (I haven’t discovered anything yet though, LOL).
At last, Fantagraphics presents Carl Barks’s very first Donald Duck stories! This is where it all started, as Carl Barks took control of Donald Duck’s comic book adventures and began a series of clever, creative, complex, and comedic stories that would continue under his cartooning brilliance for more than 20 years — and guarantee his place in comics history.
Volume 1 in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is, naturally, filled with firsts: Barks’s first comic book story (starring Pluto), the first Donald Duck story created for an American comic book (and also the first to see Donald and his nephews go on a treasure hunt), Barks’s first Donald 10-pager, Barks’s first truly solo Donald Duck story, and Barks’s first solo longer-form Donald Duck adventure (“The Mummy’s Ring”). With more than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, and the insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts, this long-awaited collection of stories makes clear what generations of Disney fans have always known: Carl Barks’s work as The Good Duck Artist is some of the greatest American cartooning in the history of the medium.
Wednesday Comics (2025 Edition) by Dan DiDio, Jose Luis Garcia, Joe Kubert, Keith Giffen, Kyle Baker, et. al.
Back in print for the first time in years, it’s Wednesday Comics—DC’s tribute to Sunday newspaper comics, featuring unique and dynamic stories from the top talents in comics!
This 11×17” hardcover edition collects the entire award-winning anthology series that reinvented the classic weekly newspaper comics section!
Wednesday Comics features 16 different stories starring the World’s Greatest Super Heroes including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash, as well as lesser known characters including Metamorpho and Metal Men. Each story is written and Illustrated by comics luminaries from multiple styles and eras including Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (100 Bullets), Kamandi by Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) and Ryan Sook (Legion of Super-Heroes), Hawkman by Kyle Baker (Plastic Man), Sgt. Rock from the father and son team of Adam Kubert and Joe Kubert, Adam Strange by Paul Pope (Batman: Year 100), Metal Men by Dan DiDio and José Luis García-López and Kevin Nowlan, and many more!
Plus, this volume includes two stories exclusive to the collected edition: Plastic Man by Evan Dorkin and Stephen DeStefano, and Beware the Creeper by Keith Giffen and Eric Canete.
This volume collects Wednesday Comics #1-12.
Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents by Richard Scully, et. al.
This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon – long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression – faces new challenges in the twenty-first century that can be far better understood and appreciated if one takes an historical perspective. Current debates over the limits of freedom of expression, ‘political correctness’, and ‘cancel culture’ all have their precedents in past controversies over cartoons and caricature; indeed there is a definite continuum between these past instances of debate and their present manifestations.
- Provides the first collection of its kind to explore cartoon controversies on a global scale
- Contains more than 120 examples of the most remarkable and controversial cartooning and comic art
- Brings together contributions from scholars based in – and analysis drawing on – multiple international contexts
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