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For you comic strip fans out there, there are a couple of new collections of ultra-rare work.

First, there is this new collection of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz’s non-Peanuts comic panels. The collection mostly consists of religious themes, apparently.

The Publisher’s Weekly review, as posted at Amazon:

Between 1956 and 1965, as Peanuts was becoming an international phenomenon, Schulz also drew a much less famous comic strip. Young Pillars was a biweekly single-panel cartoon for the Church of God’s teen magazine Youth, mostly about church-related themes: youth fellowship picnics, Sunday school homework, heavy stacks of Bible commentaries. Several hundred of them are collected here, along with a few other church-connected single-panel cartoons Schulz drew in the ’60s and some notes explaining jokes whose sense has been lost to time.

It’s only $10.17 at Amazon, not including shipping. Buy it here.

Read more about the creator of Peanuts at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center.

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On the other end of the spectrum from Peanuts, we have George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. The book of rare material is called Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty and was published this week by Fantagraphics.

Ignatz and Krazy. This is NOT a sample from the book.
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Editor & Publisher reports:

The hardcover — a stand-alone companion to Fantagraphics’ Krazy & Ignatz book series — collects rare 1910s and 1920s comics by legendary Krazy Kat creator George Herriman of King Features Syndicate.

Included are nine months of never-before-reprinted daily strips that look almost like mini-Sunday comics, Herriman’s first stand-alone Krazy & Ignatz strips from 1911, and illustrations from the cartoonist’s Krazy Kat Jazz pantomime/ballet performed in New York in 1922.

Very interesting. It’s available direct from the publisher for $29.95. Find it here.

Read more about Krazy Kat and its creator on this fan page.

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