The Essential Peanuts Is the Ultimate Book for Hardcore Snoopy Fans

As 1 of the longest-running and astir beloved comic strips of each time, Peanuts has surely been reprinted successful galore forms implicit the years. But if you're a discerning Snoopy fan, you mightiness privation to adhd The Essential Peanuts to your collection. Rarely has the bid looked this good.

With The Essential Peanuts present successful stores, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Timed to the 75th day of the series' debut, The Essential Peanuts reprints respective 100 pages' worthy of Charles Schulz's classical Peanuts strips alongside caller contented providing humanities and taste context. The caller contented is written by comics historiographer Mark Evanier. The publication besides features an instauration by Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell, a foreword by Jean Schulz, plan enactment by Chip Kidd, and contributions from Robb Armstrong, Derrick Bang, Rob Boutilier, Paige Braddock, Alberto Brambilla, Benjamin L. Clark, Alexis E. Fajardo, Ben Folds, Sarah Gillespie, Chip Kidd, Amy Lago, Mike Massimino, Akio Matsunaga, Jeff Morrow, Hilary B. Price, and Shuntarō Tanikawa. The publication is published by Abrams ComicArts.

Alongside the hardcover itself, The Essential Peanuts includes a slipcase and a portfolio of extras similar postcards, creation prints, an iron-on patch, stickers, and a facsimile of a classical Peanuts comic book.

“Having loved Peanuts since I was astir Charlie Brown's property (and nary much palmy astatine kite-flying), I was thrilled erstwhile Abrams ComicArts asked maine to walk weeks speechmaking and penning astir the comic portion that was truthful overmuch much than conscionable a comic strip,” said Evanier successful a statement. “The lone drawback was that I tried penning the publication sitting connected the extortion of a doghouse, but I kept falling off.”

The Essential Peanuts is disposable successful stores now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

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