Bulk Peanuts cheap

The folks at Hamilton Books have gotten ahold of the former big-box exclusive, the boxed set of paperback editions of the first three volumes of the Big Book of Peanuts series, collecting all the daily strips from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. They’re offering it for a mere $30, which might make it a good chunk gift for the impending Christmas or the impending ridiculously soon Chanukah.

While the set does have a lot of strips, I must look askance at the Costco website’s claim that the set has “nearly 11,000 comic strips”. It seems mighty odd to list a number that’s under 10,000 as being “nearly 11,000”; I suspect someone just multiplied 30 years by 365 days, and didn’t realize that the set doesn’t have Sunday strips, and it wasn’t around for most of 1950.

Speaking of Costco, they do have Good Grief!: The Peanuts Collection, which is a boxed set of Peanuts storybooks. I like what they did with the spines of the books (and hey, kids can treat it as a puzzle, trying to get them back in the right order!) And the $25-including-shipping price is a good one, if you have the right audience for these.

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …

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If you love Schulz, but English, not so much…

Just out in Japan is the Japanese edition of Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, the Eisner Award-winning, Schulz Museum-published heavily illustrated book co-written by curator Benjamin L. Clark and myself! And yes, it can be shipped to the States… although it …

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A quote unquote requote book on A Charlie Brown Christmas

How can you tell that the new book “A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Timeless Tale of Joy and Meaning”: Unwrapping the True Spirit of the Holiday Season with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts Gang” is truly an innovative work? It’s the quotation marks in the title.  Not constrained by …