The Complete Peanuts

The Complete Peanuts
The cover to the first volume
Publication information
Publisher	Fantagraphics Books
Schedule	biannual
Creative team
Creator(s)	Charles M. Schulz
Editor(s)	Gary Groth

The Complete Peanuts is a series of books containing the entire run of Charles M. Schulz's long-running newspaper comic strip Peanuts. A new book in the series is released every six months, each containing two years of strips (except for the first volume which includes 1950–1952, just under three months longer, though there were no Sunday strips in 1950-51). Slipcased sets of two volumes are also available. A total of 25 volumes will be printed by 2016.

Schulz began to discuss an anthology of his work with Fantagraphics Books in 1997. The idea of a complete compendium of all Peanuts strips, considered the holy grail by fans, was long resisted by Schulz; he did not want some early strips reprinted as he felt they were not as good as the ones he drew later in his career. Indeed, some 2,000 of the 17,897 Peanuts strips had never been compiled into any previous U.S. collection.

The first book in the series was published in April 2004 and quickly topped the New York Times Best Seller List.

Volumes

Besides Schulz's work, each book contains an introduction by an influential individual (often with a connection to Schulz), an index of themes and characters, additional art by designer Seth (all of which is directly based on a specific Peanuts panel), and a biography of Schulz written by series editor Gary Groth. In addition, the first volume contains an interview with Schulz conducted by Groth and an extended biography. Sunday panels, which originally appeared in color, are presented in black and white in the series (a decision approved by Schulz's widow, Jean Schulz). There is however, a new series called Peanuts Every Sunday that is scheduled to begin in November 2013, that will feature the Sunday strips in full color. These books, just like the Complete Peanuts series, are scheduled to be released one every six months, in ten volumes covering half a decade each.

All the characters on the covers (and their styles) match the time period each volume represents. The characters which appear on the cover more than once are Charlie Brown (five times), Snoopy (three), Lucy (twice), Linus (twice), and Peppermint Patty (twice).

#	Title	ISBN	Release date	Cover art	Spine art	Introduction	Pages
1	The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952	1-56097-589-X	May 2004	Charlie Brown	Shermy	Garrison Keillor	346
2	The Complete Peanuts: 1953 to 1954	1-56097-614-4	October 2004	Lucy van Pelt	Charlotte Braun	Walter Cronkite	328
3	The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1956	1-56097-647-0	May 2005	Pig-Pen	Patty	Matt Groening	344
4	The Complete Peanuts: 1957 to 1958	1-56097-670-5	October 2005	Snoopy	Violet Gray	Jonathan Franzen	344
5	The Complete Peanuts: 1959 to 1960	1-56097-671-3	May 2006	Patty	Schroeder	Whoopi Goldberg	344
6	The Complete Peanuts: 1961 to 1962	1-56097-672-1	October 2006	Schroeder	Snoopy	Diana Krall	344
7	The Complete Peanuts: 1963 to 1964	1-56097-723-X	May 2007	Linus van Pelt	Lucy van Pelt	Bill Meléndez	344
8	The Complete Peanuts: 1965 to 1966	1-56097-724-8	August 2007	Charlie Brown	555 95472	Hal Hartley	344
9	The Complete Peanuts: 1967 to 1968	1-56097-826-0	April 2008	Violet Gray	Linus van Pelt	John Waters	344
10	The Complete Peanuts: 1969 to 1970	1-56097-827-9	October 2008	Snoopy (as the World War I Flying Ace)	Pig-Pen	Mo Willems	344
11	The Complete Peanuts: 1971 to 1972	1-60699-145-0	March 2009	Sally Brown	Thibault	Kristin Chenoweth	344
12	The Complete Peanuts: 1973 to 1974	1-60699-286-4	August 2009	Woodstock	Frieda	Billie Jean King	344
13	The Complete Peanuts: 1975 to 1976	1-60699-345-3	March 2010	Frieda	Charlie Brown	Robert Smigel	344
14	The Complete Peanuts: 1977 to 1978	1-60699-375-5	September 2010	Peppermint Patty	Sally Brown	Alec Baldwin	344
15	The Complete Peanuts: 1979 to 1980	1-60699-438-7	April 2011	Charlie Brown	José Peterson	Al Roker	344
16	The Complete Peanuts: 1981 to 1982	1-60699-471-9	August 2011	Linus van Pelt	Eudora	Lynn Johnston	344
17	The Complete Peanuts: 1983 to 1984	1-60699-523-5	March 2012	Franklin	Roy	Leonard Maltin	344
18	The Complete Peanuts: 1985 to 1986	1-60699-572-3	August 2012	Spike	Marcie	Patton Oswalt	344
19	The Complete Peanuts: 1987 to 1988	1-60699-634-7	April 2013	Lucy van Pelt	Peppermint Patty	Garry Trudeau	344
20	The Complete Peanuts: 1989 to 1990	1-60699-680-0	October 2013	Charlie Brown	Franklin	Lemony Snicket	344
21	The Complete Peanuts: 1991 to 1992		May 2014	Marcie
22	The Complete Peanuts: 1993 to 1994		October 2014	Snoopy
23	The Complete Peanuts: 1995 to 1996		May 2015	Rerun van Pelt
24	The Complete Peanuts: 1997 to 1998		October 2015	Peppermint Patty
25	The Complete Peanuts: 1999 to 2000		May 2016	Charlie Brown

Boxed sets

All of the volumes are also being released in boxed sets of two, housed in a specially designed slipcase.

Title	ISBN	Release date	Center character
The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1954	1-56097-632-2	October 2004	Charlie Brown(Volume 1 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1958	1-56097-687-X	November 2005	Snoopy (Volume 4 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1959 to 1962	1-56097-774-4	October 2006	Lucy Van Pelt
The Complete Peanuts: 1963 to 1966	1-56097-868-6	September 2007	Linus Van Pelt (Volume 7 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1967 to 1970	1-56097-948-8	October 2008	Snoopy (as the World War I Flying Ace) (Volume 10 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1971 to 1974	1-60699-287-2	September 2009	Woodstock (Volume 12 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1975 to 1978	1-60699-376-3	September 2010	Peppermint Patty (Volume 14 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1979 to 1982	1-60699-472-7	August 2011	Schroeder
The Complete Peanuts: 1983 to 1986	1-60699-573-1	August 2012	Spike (Volume 18 cover)
The Complete Peanuts: 1987 to 1990	1-60699-681-9	October 2013	Sally Brown

Free Comic Book Day

Fantagraphics' contribution to the 2007 Free Comic Book Day was a companion comic book to The Complete Peanuts called Unseen Peanuts, which featured various rarely printed strips (the reasons being speculated on in the captions). The comic book is also given away free with the purchase of any of The Complete Peanuts books on Fantagraphics' order catalogs, though they state "only one per person; PLEASE".

International editions

All international editions retain the artwork, layout, and format of the original American version (though some of the German volumes feature the original introductions, such as those by Matt Groening and Whoopi Goldberg, while others feature new ones by Germans such as Robert Gernhardt):

• Canongate Books started publication of a UK edition of the series in October 2007, with twelve volumes published as of November 2012, with Volume 5 featuring a different introduction from the US edition, by Russell T Davies.
• Carlsen Comics began publication of a German edition of The Complete Peanuts in October 2006, under the title Peanuts Werkausgabe, with the fifteenth and sixteenth to be released in February and September 2013.
• The Portuguese release of Peanuts - Obra Completa by Edições Afrontamento published the first two volumes in 2006, with the sixth released in 2011.^{[citation needed]} There is no schedule for the publication of the next volumes.^{[citation needed]}
• Dargaud started publishing The Complete Peanuts in France, under the title Snoopy - Intégrales, in November 2005. To date, thirteen volumes have been published.
• In Spain, Planeta DeAgostini is the publisher of Snoopy y Carlitos, with nine volumes published to date.
• In Brazil, L&PM Editores started publication in November 2009, under the title Peanuts Completo. Five volumes have been released so far.

External links

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• Offical Fantagraphics site

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