You’re Out of Your Mind, Charlie Brown

This book is a facsimile edition of the sixth Peanuts collection originally published back in 1958 by the Clarke, Irwin & Company, Ltd of Toronto, Canada. A sixth collection of classic Peanuts newspaper comic strips, this time 122 Peanuts Sunday strips, from 1957-1959. The larger format, three tier rather than the single daily strip format allowed Schultz to play with the format of the gag and construct perfect little vignettes - from the challenge of eating a chocolate bar on your own, to the trials and tribulations of baseball and how not to fly a kite. There’s not a page not filled with beautiful drawing and Schulz’s wonderful rye take on childhood.