This May, Fantagraphics is collecting the various small square Peanuts books they’ve published into a new box set, Peanuts All Year Round Mini Collection. This includes:

• A Valentine for Charlie Brown — Valentine’s Day and romance strips
• Batter-Up Charlie Brown! — baseball strips
• Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Halloween strips
• Snoopy’s Thanksgiving — Thanksgiving strips (yes, I know you could figure that out.)
• Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking — reprints two stories that had appeared in women’s magazines in the 1960s, and hadn’t been reprinted since until the original edition of this (which I compiled) came out. Since then, the stories have wound up in Complete Peanuts 26… but I still think it’s a pretty cool little book.

The list price for this is $29.99 — six bucks a book, not bad. Be prepared to see the price of books go up; most mass-produced books are printed overseas, so if the upcoming administration follows through with their tariff plans, cost will go up. (And yes, even if they switched to US printing plants, costs would go up; there’s a reason that they print overseas)

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