Peanuts are Golden… Books

The Golden Books line is putting out three Peanuts volumes in September. Two of them are reprints of (or at least have the same title as) Little Golden Books issued in the 1980s: Let’s Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown  and Where’s Woodstock. The new title, Meet the Peanuts Gang, will have to be treated carefully by collectors and book dealers alike, because another book with that title is being issued in May. (The hardcore collector may also know of a 1960s British strip collection by that title as well.)

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Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

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Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …

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The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …