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his month’s issue of The Comics Journal focuses on the debate over the biography Schulz and Peanuts, including a 30,000+ word rebuttal from Schulz’s son Monte, plus commentary from a roundtable of Peanuts experts. I haven’t seen it yet, and in some ways, I’m a bit reluctant to; the debate over the biography took up a bit too much of my life for a while there.
The Journal is, by the way, published by Fantagraphics, the same folks who put out the Complete Peanuts books. While I’ve certainly had my disagreements with the Journal over the years (well, decades), their belief in the quality and importance of Schulz’s work is obviously sincere. I expect they put together a good package here. (This is the first issue of a new format for the magazine, as it switches to being squarebound and thus more bookstore friendly.)
