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  • The title of the series is Peanuts Every Sunday. This will, of course, justify the existence of the AAUGH.com Collectors Guide, as there already is a book of that title, a black-and-white collection of Sunday strips from 1958 through 1961.
  • The books are 12.75″ by 10″, so the strips should run at roughly the same scale as they run in the newspapers today. This is larger than they appear in The Complete Peanuts, and will be a slight disappointment to those who would like them on the larger scale of newspapers of yesteryear, or had hopes of huge publication a la the larger editions of Peanuts Jubilee… but really, thousands of pages of that across ten volumes would just squish your bookcase.
  • The first volume of it is due out in November.
  • The coloring is recreating the original published coloring. They cannot directly use the original coloring for the old ones (even where they have access to it), because the printing technology is different these days, but that means you’ll be getting a smoother look rather than all the little color dots traditional newspaper color printing required.
  • Each book is slated to cover five years of the strip, but the first one is just 1952-1955, as there were no Sunday strips in 1950 and 1951. They’re listing a page count of 288, which would be quite understandable for the later book (a full five years worth of strips would cover about 260 of those pages); we shall see what those pages consist of.
  • The November release suggests that Fantagraphics expect these to sell for Christmas. Can you blame ’em? Admit it, you want these. At $50 a pop, the cost of a set will add up over the years, but still, it should be oooh, pretty stuff.

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