Peanuts past and present

To follow up a post about a Peanuts book that even I wouldn’t buy, I suppose it’s fitting to do a post about something I normally wouldn’t buy – Peanuts figurines – that I’m actually considering in this case. Dark Horse has two upcoming two-figure releases in their Then And Now collection, contrasting the early renditions of the characters with their later ones:

Evolution of a blockhead
Evolution of a blockhead
That dog certainly got a swelled head over the years.
That dog certainly got a swelled head over the years.

Both the Charlie Brown set and the Snoopy set are slated to ship in July. Pretty cool, eh? Preorder now, and you’ll lock in the lowest price that Amazon lists between now and the release date.

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Peanuts books all a-board!

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Great Pumpkin Carols are coming

I have noted before that there seems to be a fair bit of lasting affection out there for The Peanuts Book of Pumpkin Carols, a booklet of Halloween-related lyrics for famed tunes that Hallmark put out in the 1960s and redesigned and reissued a few times. It’s clear that Chronicle Books …

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Charles Schulz – The Comic Book

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