for the top shelf of the AAUGH.com Reference Library

The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is this 1970 volume from Norway. It reprints about a hundred Sunday strips in black and white. I’ve known about this book for years, having seen a copy at the Research Center at the Charles M. Schulz Museum. I even wrote about it in my article on odd Peanuts books in Hogan’s Alley magazine (an expanded version of which is available here.) I was glad to finally get it, because I had not previously had a book in Norwegian… but I will admit that I was willing to pay just a little more for it for a purely juvenile reason.

Norwegian Peanuts cover

Remember to stop by and see me at Comic Con in San Diego later this week. About Comics, booth 5436, in the Independent Press Pavilion.

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