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One-day sale on Peanuts and other Fantagraphics books

This publisher sale includes Complete Peanuts, Peanuts Every Sunday, Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking, and more. Here’s a direct link to the Peanuts catalog page.Source: Fantagraphics Books

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Is that ChristChristChristmas?

I’m always eager to buy a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and will snag up most books related in any way to the special. But somehow, I think I’ll pass on this one: Merry XXXmas, Charlee Frown, from erotica author Lotus Rose, is the second of his trilogy of holiday …

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The Man Who Put Snoopy on the Moon

NASA is reporting the death of Gene Cernan, the last human being to set foot on the moon… and the reason while Snoopy is still there. During his Apollo 17 mission, he and fellow astronaut Harrison Schmitt had the explorers’ prerogative to name the geographic features they discovered. And thus, …

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Peanuts books 2017

For the first post of the year, I figured I should do the run-down on what we’re expecting for this year in Peanuts books. Seems likely to be a slightly light year – not full of movie-linked books like 2015, and with hardcover Complete Peanuts having come to an end …

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The Complete Peanuts Vol. 26 gets some luuuuuv

The Complete Peanuts volume 26: Comics and Stories is the perfect gift for anyone. And that’s not me (the person who lead the team finding Peanuts material for the book) talking, it’s the Christian Science Monitor! […] this is a wonderful selection of rare “Peanuts” material. I could go on about each item …

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Peanuts Sunday Calendar

For those who want Peanuts strip reprints in every corner of their lives, there’s this Peanuts Sundays Calendar available through Cafe Press. Now, if you’re hoping for a calendar in which every day is Sunday, so you never have to go to work and you can show people what you mean when …

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Good Grief! Modern Life!

For those of you who like an academic bent to the way you think about Peanuts, August brings The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life. This entry in the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series has been in the works for a while – the call for …

Classic finds

Snoopy’s Masterpiece

Among the other things that my pal David Folkman has worked on is The Comics: An American Tradition, a newspaper supplement from (if I’m dating this correctly) the early 1970s. This 16 page newsprint item has reprints of comics from across the era of strips (including a 1951 Peanuts strip), with short …

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Peanuts Rashomon

Now shipping is a pair of Peanuts board books, A Best Friend for Snoopy and A Best Friend for Woodstock. They may be two books, but they tell the same story – Snoopy and Woodstock have a fight regarding a piece of pizza, each regrets it, and they decide they …

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Peanuts book ads, and selling things

I visited with Hogan’s Alley designer David Folkman, and he let me look through a small portion of his vast comics-related collection. Here we have a couple of magazine ads for the Fawcett Crest mass-market paperback Peanuts books. (Forgive the weak photography.) It was so nice of David to let me …