The Complete Peanuts publisher seeking support

Fantagraphics, the publisher of The Complete Peanuts and many other fine (and some less fine, to be fair) books of and about comics has found themselves in a money crunch, owing in large part to the death of co-founder and key editorial guy Kim Thompson. To deal with this, they are going through Kickstarter to raise funds from your fans, with a range of premiums for donors giving a range of amounts from $1 to $1000.

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