From the Bookshelf: The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976

It seemed to take a while through however many stages of being published and shipped, but I now have the latest volume of The Complete Peanuts. (As I was reading through it, I also happened on a link to an interesting weblog posting and commenting on Peanuts comic strips, if from decades earlier...) Frieda is on the cover, and just in time perhaps; I had read in the Peanuts FAQ that her last appearance in the comic strip was in the years this volume would cover. In fact, in reading through the book I did see her make some appearances a little later than the FAQ's last definite date, but it was just sticking her head out the front door among other strips for the week that had Charlie Brown going door to door. Charlie Brown himself is on the spine of the book, and that made me think of how this volume is right in the middle of the strip's run, and then wonder if in the volumes to follow the characters on the spine will be walking the opposite direction from the ones before, so that everybody is headed away from him.
( 'For 'show and tell' today I have brought my pet rock..' )

( 'Look at that... my 'mood ring' just exploded!' )

( 'One of the neighbors just called... you'd better turn down your CB radio!' )