Every Peanuts Every Sunday

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Someone asked about my statement that Fantagraphics’s new series of books, Peanuts Every Sunday, will be reusing an already used book title. Well, here it is. This Holt, Rinehart, and Winston book first published in April, 1961, has 124 Sunday strips from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lots of fine stuff in there, of course, including Snoopy with a boxing glove on his nose, the Great Pumpkin leaving Linus a used dog, the consumption of sugar lumps with honey… prime, prime stuff. Of course, in this old book, it is all in black and white; when Fantagraphics gets to this material in volume 2 of the new series, it will all be in glorious color!

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