The Complete Peanuts: 1991 to 1992
by Charles M. Schulz (Fantagraphics Books, 2014)
Despite Schulz’s at times self-indulgent format experimentations, Peanuts in the 90s starts to feel a little tired. (Snoopy’s cookie fixation, for instance, disappoints as a recurring punchline.) Nevertheless, there is much here to like. Only by his own benchmark is Schulz diminished.
The Snoopy Treasures
by Nat Gertler (Titan, 2015)
Presented like a deluxe collection of comics — an odd format for its purpose — the Snoopy Treasury is more a potted history of the Snoopy (not Peanuts) phenomenon, exploring Snoopy’s development within Schulz’s strips and his many, many manifestations in the outside world.
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz, ed. Zachary Leibman (Running Press, 2014)
A laughably ill-considered compilation, not significantly cheaper than any given volume of ‘The Complete Peanuts’ yet presenting only a flea’s fraction of the comics — often one per A5 page — at painfully reduced size, arbitrarily selected under the conceit of ‘how to…’ wisdom.
Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years
by Charles M. Schulz (Andrews McMeel, 2009)
Beautifully presented, with the Sundays reproduced in full colour, this hefty hardcover exemplifies the droll brilliance of Schulz, devoting 100+ large, glossy pages each to the five decades in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang ruled the world of comic strips.