[11] In 2016, the book rights were acquired by Amblin Entertainment, who announced development of a film production starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig.

[13] In 2017, Blast published The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler,[14] the first collection of previously uncirculated illustrations by a prolific and idiosyncratic artist who created a vast body of visionary work without public recognition during his lifetime (1931–2013).

The book is based on "an oddball collection of animal and human hair assembled by an obsessive 19th-century naturalist [which] was at one time deemed worthless by the Academy of Natural Sciences, despite including samples from 13 of the first 14 U.S.

"[17] In 2021 Blast published Michael Lesy's Snapshots 1971-77, a selection of vintage color photos found in a dumpster behind a photo-processing plant in San Francisco and others from a Cleveland drugstore’s trash.

"While sitting in those dumpsters, these may have been nothing but simple, banal, discarded personal snapshots — weddings, birthday parties, people posing with new cars or the 12-point buck they just shot — but to see them through Lesy’s eyes they take on an unexpected beauty and profundity," wrote reviewer Jim Knipfel in The Believer.