Welcome to The Complete Peanuts

A site dedicated to the books of the same name

Peanuts is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Its characters - Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, and so many more - have become dearly loved icons for generation after generation.

Now, in two volumes per year, Charles Schulz's classic strip is presented in full, in chronological order and with specially commissioned introductions from famous fans including Garrison Keillor, Jonathan Franzen and Matt Groening.

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Canongate began publishing The Complete Peanuts series in 2007, to great acclaim. Two new volumes will follow each year.

The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952

The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952

Read the introduction by Garrison Keillor
This volume launches the definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz‘s timeless masterpiece of comic art presenting, for the very first time, every strip from 1950 to 2000. Read more…

The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954

The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954

Read the foreword by Walter Cronkite
In addition to the beloved character Pig-Pen, The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 shows many of the cast of characters beginning to take on their best-known personality traits — from Linus’s philosophical thoughtfulness to Lucy’s fussiness, as well as Snoopy’s emerging eccentricity. Read more…

The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956

The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956

Read the foreword by Matt Groening
The third volume of the acclaimed Complete Peanuts series includes such landmarks as Linus’s first spoken words, Charlie Brown’s first baseball humiliation, and a hilarious series of impressions by an ever-more-Snoopyish Snoopy. All this and “Pig-Pen”, too! Read more…

The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958

The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958

Read the foreword by Jonathan Franzen
Everyone’s favourite beagle comes into his own in this fourth volume of the best-selling Complete Peanuts series. Snoopy covets Linus’s security blanket, indulges in imitations and impressions, joins the baseball team and, toward the end of this book, he even — an epochal development — starts sleeping on the roof of his doghouse. Read more…

The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960

9781847671493

As Peanuts concludes its first decade, a new character makes her appearance: Charlie Brown’s little sister Sally. This volume covers her earliest days, from her proud brother’s announcement of her birth to her first words (and crush on Linus)! Read more…

The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962

9781847671509

‘I have naturally curly hair.’ With those fateful words, The Complete Peanuts introduces another main character to the gang, the vain Frieda (not to mention her cat Faron). Read more…

All volumes are published in hardback priced at £15.00.