Peanuts from the silent black-and-white era

Classic finds

So I picked up these coloring books from the 1970s – outside my usual collecting guidelines, of course, but they were all Christmas-themed, and the Peanuts/Christmas link is on my mind these days. Besides, they were cheap and, as it turns out, in immaculate condition.

But I find them kind of odd, for art selection reasons. They include art in which a character is clearly talking… but they don’t have captions. It’s not as if they don’t have space for the dialogue below, in traditional coloring book style. Something about the talking being seen but unheard just haunts me…

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