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congrats! :thumbsup:

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Still collecting, falling behind on my reading

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I'm way behind. Only picked up the first three boxes. I wonder if any of those book clubs have any of them these days?

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Yeah, I've bought a few, mainly through book clubs. I've now seen a couple in the bargain/closeout sections. So while I want to own them all eventually, I won't pay more than $5-10 per set.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...3D50.DTL&tsp=1

'Peanuts' gang sold to Joe Boxer owner for $175 million.

Seems pretty cheap if you ask me.....hopefully this won't mess up the books that are coming out twice a year.

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Gracias! :up:

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Just a shot I took since I picked up the latest two box sets. Not too bad a deal I figure for $31 for two books. Anyone still buying?

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I'm still collecting, definitely. Hey, if you have the time, can you post a pic of all the box "spines" lined up in chronological order? I'm still looking for an answer to my earlier question... :)

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I'm still buying. I kind of wish that I went with the boxed sets from the beginning.

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Not buying, but my library has all of these, and I'm fixing to read them all. I've always loved Peanuts, but never really read it. My love comes from the cartoon, so it will be nice to see how these characters developed over the years.

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Need the slipcases? Fantagraphics sells them separately. $5 each.

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I've missed the last one or two--will probably pick them up at some point.

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I never actually got into picking any of these up. I've got The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes complete collections, and I don't often get to open them up, and I feel like I'd have the same problem with these. Are the first ones out of print and hard to find already?

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They're all still in print as far as I know. Amazon doesn't seem to be missing any.

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Sure! Sorry for the delay, I'll try to get to it tonight!

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Cool, thanks!

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The colors of the books themselves are really nice when you take off the book jackets.

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Awesome! Thanks for doing that. Those first four boxes are exactly the color I have, so my mind is at ease. :) Now, to buy the remaining boxes...

Thanks again!

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The sets look fantastic, thanks for all of the pictures. I need to get around to picking these up. Been putting it off for a while now.

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^Nice....I'll have to wait til October to get the nice box set. :)

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I bought the first two sets before I realized that I don't have the space of the money for the entire collection. I have always loved Peanuts though. I credit the daily strip for encouraging me to learn how to read.

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I'm in a similar boat. I love the idea of these, but owning them all is too much of a commitment for me. I'll just read them from the library.

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1979-1982 New box out this week I believe.

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Wow, looks like Fantagraphics stopped selling the empty slipcases, and here I was waiting to buy all my missing cases at the end of the run. Great!

So if anyone wants to part with their cases, and they're in fine condition, I'd be willing to buy them. I need all cases after 1966.

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I saw the first volume back when it first came out in 2004 and thought that it would be awesome to have, but then I saw it was only the first 2 years (should have known by the size) and realized it would take several volumes to put them all out. I was afraid, with like so many other collections, that a lack of sales might keep them from releasing all the volumes. Luckily I was reminded of these again this year and found to my surprise that they were up to Volume 16. Over the past 6 months (and with a birthday in there too) I was able to purchase and collect up the 16 volumes. Now I can continue collecting these over the next 5 years. I plan on building a nice shelf to hang on the wall when these are all available, that will hold them all side by side. I'm going to paint it with the Peanuts characters and show off my awesome collection. Thanks to Fantagraphics and Seth for these great volumes and of course a special thank you to Mr. Schultz for this great masterpiece. I can't wait for next April to get Volume 17!!!!

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I think I'm done.

I had a laugh out loud moment reading the 1981-1982 volume. That made me realize that I hadn't laughed once while reading the 1979-1980 volume. Schultz is phoning it in. There is page after page of Peppermint Patty getting a D-minus in school. Not only does he recycle jokes from previous volumes, he recycles a joke that was earlier in the same volume. He even has a character named Rerun.

I remember losing interest in Peanuts around the time these strips were first published. I've sort of assumed that it was just a matter of my tastes changing as grew up. But no, these strips are just bad.

The series is half done. Another half is yet to to be released. But I don't think I want to spend another couple hundred dollars and use another two feet of shelf space for volumes by a cartoonist who was once brilliant, but who is now coasting.

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The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 (Vol. 17)
April 3, 2012

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I haven't bought any of these in a while but I'm glad they're still coming out. Vol. 18 (1985-86) is scheduled for Sept 5.

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i have the fifties, and am intending to get the sixties, early seventies. do people (other than collector/completists) feel that the strip begins to get stale or repetetive, or is it worth it to keep buying/reeding through the seventies and eighties?

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They start getting slick and formulaic by 1970. He's been doing it for almost 20 years, and he's become the most successful comic strip artist in history. It shows in the work. Sometime in there Schultz had a bitter divorce, and it gives the strips a certain edge that wasn't there before. But if you stopped in the early 70s you would have got most of the good stuff.

There is a possibility that Peanuts gets good again in the 1980s, 1990s, or 2000s, but I won't be there to find out.

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I'm still in awe of the fact that they planned this out way back but set a TWELVE YEAR time frame for it. On the one hand, that's pretty ambitious, on the other WTF. Still haven't gotten around to getting any but I am interested. And since people are saying that everything post 1980 is bad....that makes me question whether that was the reason I never really liked the strip as a kid, since I pretty much only read the output from the 90's. I never really read the early stuff.

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I'm not sure which is more mind-boggling: the fact that they planned this out for 12 years or the fact that we're already 2/3 done. Where does the time go? :eek:

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:eek: indeed!

I remember this thread being started like it was yesterday.

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That first volume seemed magical: its heft, the feel of the dust jacket and paper, opening up to "How I hate him!" (at least I think that was the first strip).

The series has lost some of its luster due to drop in quality in the strip itself and the way the market has grown. Too many other strips to read!

The long run was probably the right choice. People wouldn't have wanted to spend their cash at a faster rate, especially if they didn't have time to read them along the way. I know I own about 10 volumes but have only read the first few so far.

Not sure why I didn't contribute to this thread till '10. :hscratch:

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Still collecting them....Haven't read them all, but plan to someday!

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Amazon just gave me the shipping notice for the final volume of Krazy Kat. Fantagraphics has been working on that series since 2000. It took them twelve years to finish it.

But that's not all. They picked up where Eclipse left off. I bought Volume One from Eclipse back in 1988. I've spent half my life buying the complete Krazy Kat. :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Congrats at least! :up:

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Holy shit. I didn't know that was still going, I bought just the 1925-26 one back in 2003. The one with the post-911 blurb on the back where Art Spiegleman equated the characters to Osama Bin Laden and Bush. Oh boy.

How is the quality as the years go on?