Charlie Brown in Colour

When "The Complete Peanuts" started, the Sunday pages were in black and white along with everything else. I got used to this before too long, remembering the old collections were all in black and white as well, but did keep up with the coloured versions run on-line.

Then, on a whim, I went to a comics news site I'm not quite in the habit of visiting regularly these days and saw as the very first item an announcement that a color collection of Sunday pages is going to be starting soon. That got my attention in a pleased sort of way, although there was a thought that The Complete Peanuts is entering into a sort of final era, and these somewhat pricy volumes will stretching things out... Still, the thought of getting to contrast the modern colouring of the online Sunday pages with what I'm sure will be a best effort to "get back to the old records" (although I do recall a few comics were hard to come by early on and had to be reproduced from microfilm) does get my attention.