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Earlier books

There are also a number of earlier books, based on sub-selections of the original reprints. Such as Just A French Major From The Bronx, Bravo For Life's Little Ironies, I Have No Son and Don't Ever Change, Boopsie... Where do these go? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gareth Owen (talk • contribs) 13:06, January 26, 2006

I'd put them in the "Other Collections" section, myself - weren't they special printings? --JohnDBuell 17:56, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know. Of the ones I own, "Just a French Major ..." and "Even Revolutionaries Like Chocolate Chip Cookies" say "Selected cartoons from 'Still A Few Bugs In The System'", "... Life's Little Ironies" and "I Have No Son" say "Selected cartoons from 'But This War Had Such Promise'" and "Don't Ever Change Boopsie" is selected from "The President Is A Lot Smarter Than You Think". Physically they resemble the early white-trimmed Bantam Books, but they're published by Popular Library, and they're not quite same size. Oh, and they're only two panel-per-page. Qu'elle rip-off. -- GWO

I'd say either "Other Collections" or make a new category: "Special Collections" or "Special Reprintings" (or even "Reprinted Collections"), since they're not 'annual collections'. --JohnDBuell 18:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fawcett editions.

I used to own elements of both series back in the 1970s, and even then it was a little unclear what was going on.

The Popular Library / Fawcett books had the size and format of standard comic strip books of that period, Peanuts, Wizard of Id, B.C. and so on.

The Holt books had a format different from everything else available at that time. At least, that's how I remember it.

I bought the small format here in Canada. I remember finding the Holt editions at a university bookstore (U. of Illinois?) in the States.

A Holt book was split cleanly into 2 pieces, then republished in the smaller format.

If a few strips were omitted during the two-way split process, then I am not aware of that.

To the best of my knowledge, 2 Fawcetts = 1 Holt.

A couple of years ago, I tried to organize the pairings on this page. In cases where I was not absolutely sure of which Fawcett title went with which Holt I made educated guesses and marked those with a [?]. That symbol can be eliminated once someone has compared the two editions.

Varlaam (talk) 18:43, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More info?

Can someone please give more info about these books. I would like to know the dates of the strips contained in each of the annuals. If I wanted to read doonesbury from begining to end, what books would I need to read? Would the anthologies cover it? Or would I need to read the annuals? What about the sunday strips... are all of them included in the annuals? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.119.156.82 (talk • contribs) 01:41, November 14, 2006

I would say this is the first thing that needs to be addressed - each collection needs to reflect the period of comics contained within it. RoyBatty42 02:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The inclusion of the "Sunday" strips (we would say Saturday in Canada) is a relatively modern innovation. The old Holt editions didn't have a section in colour.

Varlaam (talk) 18:46, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Source on some anthology volumes containing low percentages of strips?

The article says that some of the anthology collections are missing large percentages of strips. For example: "The Doonesbury Chronicles Contains ... about 38% of strips published during this time." Is that really true? If so, can someone cite a source for that info? An official Doonesbury FAQ page seems to indicate otherwise: (http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/faq?category=Creating+the+Strip). However, that page also seems to indicate that the small volumes stopped being published after the mid-'90s, whereas the article here lists a dozen small volumes published after that point. So I'm not sure what to believe, but there are no sources on the Wikipedia article. --Elysdir (talk) 03:18, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dude: The Big Book of Zonker Publication Data

The copy I have was published by Andrews McMeel Publishing and is copyrighted 2005. This affects its position in the list. I don't feel qualified to actually do the edit, so I am putting this info here. 67.100.127.109 (talk) 16:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Completeness?

Are the collections anywhere near complete? 2601:188:CD7E:9640:C81E:556:E3A6:648C (talk) 04:27, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]