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* When I wrote that Mark Evanier's sure to be excellent, forthcoming biography on Jack Kirby, Kirby: King of Comics was such a major event as to make it the only book of its type this Fall worth considering, I clearly was harboring some sort of odd resentment against Charles Schulz biographer David Michaelis, whose equally anticipated Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography will also debut in the weeks ahead. Peanuts guru Nat Gertler has an early review. One thing I want to see is if Schulz's marital drama will be the centerpiece of how the book is presented through the press, and if so, how that notion will be tied back into his work or the progression of his career. Or if it will be.

* a couple of people wrote in to tell me to hold my horses when it comes to suggesting that DC delaying a bunch of Showcase editions featuring work from the company's more eclectic portions of its catalog reflects a winnowing of that reprint line in a way that would favor their bigger licenses. Turns out that the material in question are later books where different rights situations apply, and DC needs extra time to clear the rights before they can publish that material. Although there's a truism applicable to comics that says a book that doesn't get published still has a chance of not being published, the explanation sounds fair to me and I look forward to more of the odder Showcase books hitting the stands at a later date.
 
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