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Dav Pilkey's Adventures of Super Diaper Baby Returns For Dog Man Year

Dav Pilkey’s The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby returns for Dog Man Year as well as 4 million free copies of Supa Special Collector’s Comic

At the end of January 2025, Dav Pilkey's Dog Man movie will hit, and publisher Scholastic Graphix will be bumping up their Dog Man offerings to match. The fourteenth graphic novel in the series, Dog Man: Big Jim Begins, just came out with a first printing of five million, making it on the same level as the likes of Asterix and ahead of One Piece.

Dav Pilkey has created a floppy Supa Special Collector's Comic that will show how the characters turned from comic book to film versions, and Scholastic will distribute four million copies of this free minicomic through schools. And in August, Scholastic will also publish for the first time a full-colour edition of his first-ever graphic novel from 2002, The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby.

Dav Pilkey embarks on an international tour. Inspired by one of the themes in the Dog Man series about how ordinary people can do extraordinarily good deeds, all events on Dav Pilkey's tour will shine the spotlight on everyday heroes who make a positive impact in their own communities. The tour starts in the U.S. in January with an event at the world's largest library, the Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C. Additional event details and tour stops in the U.S. include Kansas City, Detroit, Dallas, Orlando, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more. For the first time in 10 years, Pilkey will travel to the U.K. and Ireland appearing in London at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Southbank Centre's Imagine Festival on February 22nd followed by an event in Dublin.

• Starting this month and through spring 2025, more than 100 Dog Man costume characters will be appearing at bookstores, libraries, and community-wide events across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
• Thousands of custom "Join The Hero Party" Dog Man displays and exclusive giveaways will be featured across all major retailers in the U.S. and Canada. Scholastic will also distribute thousands of event kits and the Dog Man iconic hero badges to bookstores and libraries. To find events in the U.S. and Canada, and to download free "Join the Hero Party" activities, visit www.celebratedogman.com.
• Dav Pilkey has created a free "Supa Special Collector's Comic" showing how animators brought his characters to life on the big screen for the Dog Man movie. To help readers explore the exciting world of graphic novels and creative storytelling, Scholastic will provide nearly 4 million copies of this free mini comic through its school channels in the U.S., U.K., Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Through literacy programs organized by Scholastic collaborators Book Trust and the Scripps Howard Fund, which promote book access and the joy of reading, nearly 50,000 students across the U.S. will each receive a free copy of Dog Man: Big Jim Begins. In addition, one school from each program will receive a "Join the Hero" party-themed Scholastic Book Fair. Participating schools will also recognize everyday heroes who make a difference in their own communities. These in-school literacy programs will be fully funded by Dav Pilkey.
• Starting this month through 2025, international publishers have major plans to promote Dog Man including a costume character tour in Spain organized by Grupo SM. In Brazil, where Dog Man sales have doubled, publisher Companhia das Letras is sending the Dog Man costume character on a wide-ranging promotional tour appearing at bookstores in various cities including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
• The critically-acclaimed Dog Man: The Musical and Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical from TheaterWorksUSA, stage adaptations of Dav Pilkey's hit graphic novel series, will be touring across North America and around the world through 2025.

2025 is Dog Man's year, we just get to live in his kennel.

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