Peanuts book ads, and selling things

img_0679I visited with Hogan’s Alley designer David Folkman, and he let me look through a small portion of his vast comics-related collection. Here we have a couple of magazine ads for the Fawcett Crest mass-market paperback Peanuts books. (Forgive the weak photography.) It was so nice of David to let me share these with you.img_0678

And speaking of sharing, I hope you’re well along in any plans you have to share presents with your friends and family. If you’ve fallen behind on your shopping, I can greedily ask you to click on the link here before you do any Amazon shopping. And hey, let’s make it a link to something that some people might like: the Hamilton Mix-tape, a bunch of top musical artists doing their rework of material from the musical Hamilton.

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