AAUGH.com Peanuts book collectors guide
Notations used in this guide: * = There's a copy of this book in the AAUGH.com reference library. (HB) = The copy in the reference library is a hardcover (may not be noted on books available solely in hardcover.) CB = Charlie Brown Copyright 1992-2005 Nat Gertler The AAUGH blog: |
Schulz's other strips in reprint booksBegun 2000. June 25th, 2008 revisionCharles Schulz worked on a number of comics strips over the years, besides Peanuts. Best known of these is Li'l Folks, the single-panel newspaper gag series that he did before Peanuts. While a few scattered Li'l Folks strips have shown up in various historically-themed Peaunts books, there is just one book focusing on Li'l Folks, and it collects all of them:Li'l Folks collections
The late 1950s brought about It's Only A Game, a short-lived gag panel that Schulz did with the uncredited collaboration of Jim Sasseville. Again, there is only one book collecting these, and it has the complete collection. It's Only A Game collections
However, the non-Peanuts work of Schulz that has been most reprinted is the series of single-panel gags that he did for the Church Of God, appearing primarily in their magazine Youth. These panels, occasionally refered to by the horrible name Teen-nuts but more properly called Young Pillars, have been collected in a number of books over the years. I heartily recommend reading any of these you can lay your hands on. Youth magazine teen-ager strips original collectionsNote: Some people list the book Two By Fours with these books. However, the cartoons in that book (which are about little kids, not teenagers) are original illustrations, not reprints.
Re-collectionsThese books contain mainly cartoons that appeared in the earlier collections, although they may contain some cartoons not in those collections.
Reuse of the artThe art from the Youth strips has occasionally been reused for single illustrations. These are pretty minor uses, and mostly don't use the original Schulz captions. Usually, I wouldn't mark something with this little Schulz on my lists, but I thought these might be of interest to someone.
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