Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2023 release.
Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,
though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.
Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 6: 1940 – The Time of Cholera
Poor Helpless Comics!: The Cartoons (and More) of Ed Subitzky (preview) (review)
The Complete Dick Tracy: Vol. 1 1931-1933; The Complete Dick Tracy: Vol. 2 1933-1935
These are reissues of the first six volumes to bring them up-to-size of volumes seven and up.
Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comics
COMICS REVUE PRESENTS OCT 2023
Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave
The Bloom County Library: Book Three (paperback edition)
Bite Sized Archie: Going Viral
For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Vol. 7
The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle
Snoopy: Touchdown!
Eerie Archives Volume 1; Creepy Archives Volume 2 (Stories by Archie Goodwin in time for Halloween!)
Pluto Rocket: Joe Pidge Flips a Lid
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel
Picturing the Game An Illustrated Story of Hockey (Bado’s preview/review)
The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Complete Collection
Melvin Monster (John Stanley Library) (fun monster stories for Halloween)
The Chillingly Weird Art Of Matt Fox (Halloween nightmares)
Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth (paperback edition)
Engine of Change (Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines #3)
The Ghastly Ones & Other Fiendish Frolics (another Halloween book)
Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day (missed in September)
feature image by and © Jim Engel
The “Wallace the Brave” collections are charming, but seriously flawed by the publisher’s insistence on producing them in “portrait” format. Ssince Will Henry (thankfully) does not have to stick to the (tiresome) three- or four-panel standards that syndicates prefer and/or dictate, the strips have to be cut and reformatted to fit on the book’s pages. Printing the collections in landscape format with two daily strips on each page would have been a much better idea.
That Watership Down graphic novel looks beautiful. My favorite novel ever, so I’ll be picking that up eventually.