Upcoming books of Schulz interviews and Sundays

Upcoming releases

Coming from Fantagraphics in October is “What Cartooning Really Is”: The Major Interviews with Charles Schulz. This offers up four interviews with Sparky, conducted by Fantagraphics head Gary Groth, film critic Leonard Maltin, novelist Laurie Colwin, and comics historian Rick Marschall. For those with a hefty Peanuts research bookshelf, the Groth and Maltin interviews are presumably the ones that you’ll  find in Charles M. Schulz: Conversations.

That’s the surprise of their fall releases. The other ones are all latest issues in ongoing series:

The big Peanuts Every Sunday for the last half of the 1980s:

and the box set that covers that entire decade:

Volume 14 of the paperback rerelease of The Complete Peanuts:

And the box set covering 1975-1978 in that series:

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