The next Get Fuzzy collection, I'm Ready For My Movie Contract ($10.95), by Darby Conley, is due out in September. Get Fuzzy was named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society, and the collections regularly appear near the top of BookScan's bookstore graphic novel bestseller lists.
Alternative Zits: A Zits Treasury ($16.95), from Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, is also due out in September. Zits appears in more than 1,500 newspapers and has a fan base of more than 45 million.
Other strip and single panel toon collections from the fall list are as follow:
August
And When She Opened the Closet Door All the Clothes Were Polyester ($8.95), the new FoxTrot Collection from Bill Amend
Brevity 2 ($12.95), from Guy & Rodd (Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry)
Lio's Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod ($12.95) from Mark Tatulli
Monkey Business ($12.95), A Flying McCoys Collection by Glenn and Gary McCoy
Yarns and Shanties (And Other Nautical Baloney) ($12.95), is the twelfth
September
The Best of Mutts ($24.95), is a 10-year retrospective with favorites chosen by creator Patrick McDonnell.
Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer ($12.95), a Close to Home Collection by John McPherson
FMinus ($10.95), a collection from Tony Carrillo
Make Cakes Not War ($14.95) a collection from Judy Horacek, an Australian cartoonist who focuses on feminism, environmental issues and social justice
Night Shift ($10.95), a Baby Blues Scrapbook from Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
The Sopratos ($10.95), A Pearls Before Swine Collection by Stephen Pastis
Senior's Discount ($12.95), A For Better or Worse Collection from Lynn Johnson
This Is as Bad as It Gets ($16.95), A Voutch Cartoon Collection by Voutch
October:
Cubes and Punishment: A Collection of Dilbert Comics on the Theme of Unusual Workplace Cruelty ($16.95) from Scott Adams
Leadership: Cartoons & Sculpture from the Bush Years ($14.95) is a collection of political cartoons from Pat Oliphant, the most widely syndicated cartoonist in the world.
Welcome to the Nerd Farm ($16.95), a Doonesbury Book from Garry Trudeau
Ziggy on Parade ($12.95), by Tom Wilson
Other Pop Culture Releases:
Andrews McMeel will also release two other significant volumes of interest to pop culture retailers this fall:
Napoleon Dynamite: The Twelve Days of Christmas ($9.95) presents the 12 days of Christmas a la Napoleon Dynamite. An August release.
Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara ($29.95), the fourth offering in the popular Dinotopia series from James Gurney, is due out in September.