A box of squares

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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)

Angle shot of the box set, with Snoopy and Woodstock dancing on grass on the cover.

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A book I’d not expected to resurface

Back in 2011, Schulz’s granddaughter Dena Hodges issued the first two chapters of  a memoir called In the Shadow of the Family Dog. As I noted in my review at the time, the chapter and the description of the project made it clear that the focus was her relationship with …

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Game Day returns

Back in 2020, Fantagraphics dropped Game Day, a boxed set of sports-themes Peanuts strip reprint paperbackss, as a Costco exclusive. Next June it’s coming back, this time in hardcover and available through the usual sources. Designed as a Father’s Day gift, it should be good for anyone who likes Peanuts …

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An unauthorized? biography

In the past, I’ve talked about the Charles Schulz biographies that are produced as part of bulk lines of biographies for school libraries, very brief, photo-heavy things meant to give kids something to write book reports about. Well ABDO, a company that has produced just such a biography in the …