There are no more Sundays to come!

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The tenth volume of Peanuts Every Sunday, containing all of the Sunday strips from 1996 through 2000, and the two-volume boxed set covering the final decade of the strip, have now both been released. Fantagraphics has yet another achievement with the completion of issuing of these large, lovely, respectful volumes.

Now, the 1990s aren’t the decade I’d recommend if someone wanted to buy just one of these boxed sets. (That would be the sixties, when the strip was a bit more daring and visually invented.) But I think that sometimes the 1990s Peanuts material is dissed too easily. In the last few years of that decade, Schulz seemed to be on a creative upswing, particularly with the energy he was putting into young Rerun Van Pelt. Even weak periods of Peanuts are only relatively weak, still better than the good years of many a strip. The last book (which is a little thinner than the ones before it owing to the strip ending early in 2000 rather than making it through the year) is better than some which preceded it.

(And hey, remember what I said about how clicking book links in the blog entries as your way of getting to Amazon helps pay for this blog? Well there’s some book links above… click away!)

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a box of confusion

Here’s a quiz for you: imagine you, like AAUGH Blog reader Douglas, got a copy of a new boxed set of Peanuts books, and it had this marking on the box…. Now, first pretend that you (unlike Douglas) don’t know anything about Peanuts books. How many books do you think come …

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The Great Big Book of Peanuts Word Seeks

I’m a Peanuts book collector. Now, that should come as no surprise to the readers of this blog. But occasionally I point out that I am not a “Peanuts collector”. I certainly accumulate other Peanuts stuff, but the thing I am aiming to be a completist on is books. And …

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100 Objects in bookstores!

Out TODAY is Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects. This is the Schulz Museum project that I cowrote with Benjamin L. Clark. Amazon is showing signs of having trouble keeping up with demand (they’re giving me an expected delivery time of 2-5 …