The Complete Peanuts: 1973 to 1974
by Charles M. Schulz (Fantagraphics, 2008)
Two more excellent years. Schulz favours Snoopy (a little too much), Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty, but Sally also comes into her own. The physical humour is masterfully drawn, the existential comedy as reliable as ever. Plus, Schulz dabbles with dad jokes!
Peanuts: The Loves of Snoopy
by Charles M. Schulz (Hodder & Stoughton, 1978)
A slim (46-page) hardcover collection of Sunday strips affording plenty of space to each panel but paying only lip service to the title. The inking is often quite shoddy, at its most bizarre assigning variable hair colours to several of the characters!
Sunday’s Fun Day, Charlie Brown
by Charles M. Schulz (Titan Comics, 2021)
[Reproducing the same title published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968]
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A small-scale paperback volume collecting Sunday strips (approximately 59% of those published) from 1962-1965. The winnowing results in a strong mix, but Titan Comics have opted for black-and-white facsimiles instead of the colour reproductions that would make this anything but an also-ran.
The Complete Peanuts: 1969 to 1970
by Charles M. Schulz (Canongate, 2008)
Schulz by second decade’s turn has mastered his craft, both from a technical viewpoint (those facial expressions!) and as an observer of life. The strips here contain a little too much Snoopy and Woodstock, but it’s a good period for Charlie Brown.
Lucy Rules OK?
by Charles M. Schulz (Hodder and Stoughton, 1978)
At time of printing there were fewer than 1,000 Peanuts Sunday strips to choose from. Still this is a very patchy collection. Of the forty-three selected (colour, A4), few do Lucy justice. In most she is an incidental character (or absent altogether!).
Classroom Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982)
A 200-page large-format compendium, five black-and-white dailies or one colour Sunday per page. Peppermint Patty and Sally feature most often, and school is where Sally is at her funniest. Given how wearisome themed collections can be, this one holds up remarkably well.
Snoopy Treasury
by Charles M. Schulz (Book Club Associates, 1981)
A large-format book combining much of “Peanuts Treasury” (1960s dailies and Sundays, black and white) with the colour Sundays from “Sandlot Peanuts” (1960s-1970s baseball themed). The result is nearly 200 pages of wit and wisdom, somewhat lopsided in favour of Charlie Brown.
You’re a Good Scout Snoopy
by Charles M. Schulz (Hodder & Stoughton, 1979)
A collection of Sunday strips, only four of which feature Snoopy as scout leader (the remaining thirty-nine have a more generic Snoopy focus). This is unfortunate, as the scouting expeditions’ visual nature and last-panel sight gags benefit from the large-format colour presentation.
The Snoopy Festival
by Charles M. Schulz (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974)
A big collection of Snoopy-focussed strips—five weeklies or one colour Sunday per page across just shy of 200 pages. The colour strips are beautifully reproduced and the selection of dailies is good, albeit that a few ongoing storylines are left incomplete.
The Peanuts Gang
by Charles M. Schulz (Hodder & Stoughton, 1979)
A slim volume showcasing one Sunday comic per A4 page. While Peanuts has more life in colour (the characters’ stock outfits evince a surprising number of variations!) the selection of strips is narrow and over-magnification leads to a dotty sort of pixilation.