The Complete Peanuts Character Encyclopedia

Coming this fall is The Complete Peanuts Character Encyclopedia, a hardcover guide to everyone in the Peanuts strip universe. This one is written by Andrew Farago, a fine fellow and the curator over at the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco’s respectable-and-fun showcase of the comics arts, and on this he’s working in concert with the Schulz Museum And Research Center. A forty-buck hardcover, it’s good to have something besides strip reprints, storybooks, and academic-aimed books coming up!

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