{"id":4254,"date":"2016-04-26T09:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2016-04-26T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:46:29","slug":"complete-peanuts-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/complete-peanuts-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete Peanuts 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I have, in my hot’n’handsome li’l hands, a copy of\u00a0The Complete Peanuts\u00a0<\/strong>volume 25<\/a>, collecting the final year-and-a-little of the newspaper strip, which is a good thing to have but not exactly hard to have come by before. But this is filled out with two other items of note: a foreword by President of the United States Barack Obama – just a basic one-page statement of I like Peanuts and everybody like Peanuts and Peanuts holds meaning, that’s the kind of thing one gets from a sitting president, but still, hey, sitting president! – and the complete run of “Li’l Folks”, the series of single panel kid-oriented gags that Schulz did for local papers in the day before “Peanuts”. Those haven’t been available before in a generally distributed book (although there is a collection available from the Schulz Museum<\/a>, which has the added bonus of commentary by Derrick Bang). The\u00a0Complete Peanuts<\/em> format was well designed for running the daily and Sunday Peanuts strips that the books have consisted of up until this point, but it’s a horribly horizontal format for a the portrait-oriented “Li’l Folks” and so Fantagraphics has done this:<\/p>\n

\"Sideways<\/a><\/p>\n

As myself a publisher of a book where the binding is at the top, I approve! And this may well be what ends up happening to some of the material that’s going to end up in\u00a0Complete Peanuts\u00a0<\/em>26, such as a the comic book stories.<\/p>\n

Speaking of\u00a0Complete Peanuts<\/em> 26, I suppose I should caveat this coverage\/review of 25 by saying that I have been paid for my work on\u00a0that volume, and thus you should read my comments here with the awareness that I may have a conflict of interest. But then, my reviews of previous volumes should reflect that I feel that of course you should want all the\u00a0Complete Peanuts\u00a0<\/em>volumes, because, hey, it’s the complete “Peanuts”! Go order it now (you still can get some good pre-shipping savings!)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I have, in my hot’n’handsome li’l hands, a copy of\u00a0The Complete Peanuts\u00a0volume 25, collecting the final year-and-a-little of the newspaper strip, which is a good thing to have but not exactly hard to have come by before. But this is filled out with two other items of note: a … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}