Recommended Peanuts book gifts

 

So, you want to get someone a Peanuts book present, but am not sure what? Here are my suggestions.

  • The “I really want to impress you with a large, expensive, impressive gift” gift: Peanuts: Artist’s Edition, an amazing, seriously oversized book reproducing Peanuts from the original art
  • EverySundayThe “You think you like Peanuts, but wait until you see it in its ultimate presentation” gift: Peanuts Every Sunday 1956-1960, hundreds of Peanuts Sunday strips in an oversized hardcover, beautifully reproduced from possibly the best visual era for the Sunday strips.
  • The “Hey, kid, you’ve never heard of Peanuts?” gift: Charlie Brown and Friends, a full-color strip collection at a low price.
  • The “You like Peanuts but you’ve only read a bit?” gift: I’ve got no click-through for this, but if you’re a Costco member, check their book table for The Big Book of Peanuts. There are two volumes of it, about $20 each; the one that collects all the daily (i.e., not Sunday) strips from the 1970s is better than the one from the 1980s.
  • The “You’re not going to read it, you’re just going to look at it” gift: Peanuts: a Scanmation Book, a cool book with a handful of images, each of which animates as you turn the page
  • The “For the person who thinks they have everything” giftIt’s Only a Game: The Complete Color Collection presents Schulz’s other syndicated newspaper cartoon. As the publisher of this volume, I can tell you that, while the earlier black-and-white collection of this strip sold in the thousands, this color edition has sold only in the dozens. I mean it, it hasn’t even sold a hundred copies yet. Odds are very slim that anyone you’re thinking of buying one for actually has it.
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  As these two ads, from 1954 and 1961 respectively, show, Patty and Violet had a rather consistent relationship… living on slightly different planes, and not introducing themselves, but giving a name to each other. 40 SHARES Share Tweet this thing Follow the AAUGH Blog

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The Untouchable Charlie Brown

If you look at this ad, you may be wondering (as I did when I stumbled across it) why Charlie Brown is advertising a television show in 1963… and why, of all shows, he’s advertising The Untouchables. (Or you may be one of the many people now populating the earth too …

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Peanuts First Edition guide

As proud as I am of my Peanuts Book Collectors Guide, it is not the be-all and end-all guide…. and as much as I have visions of making it so, the real life of being a father of two, the runner of a business, a make of dinners, and a …