The Complete Peanuts 25th Volume Will Feature Foreword Written By President Obama
Photo courtesy of FantagraphicsThe president of the United States will share his love for Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics in the foreword of Fantagraphics’ penultimate volume ofThe Complete Peanuts hardcovers, The New York Times reports.
The 25th book in the series, which has featured Peanuts strips from the comic’s 50-year run, is scheduled for a May release and covers strips from Jan. 1, 1999 to Feb. 13, 2000, when the final strip was published. It was also the day after the series’ iconic creator passed away from colon cancer.
The last year of the comic strip will run in Vol. 25, along with reprints of “Li’l Folks,” Schulz’s weekly comic that ran between 1947 and 1950.
“Like millions of Americans, I grew up with Peanuts. But I never outgrew it,” President Barack Obama writes in several excerpted lines from his foreword to the series final volume. “For decades, Peanuts was our own daily security blanket. That’s what makes Peanuts an American treasure.”
Fantagraphics began publishing The Complete Peanuts hardcovers back in 2004, after a concerted effort by the company’s president and co-founder Gary Groth to get the comic’s creator in on the idea of an official Peanuts collection.