Peanuts Every Sunday #1

Charlie Brown's eternal struggle with a kite takes center stage on this charming cover by Charles M. Schulz, where a strip sequence of crashes, tears, and smashes gives way to a larger image of Charlie Brown sprinting away — trailing what appears to be the wreckage of yet another doomed kite — while a puzzled Lucy looks on with a question mark. This handsome Fantagraphics volume collects Schulz's full-color Sunday strips from 1952–1955, showcasing the strip in its expansive, unhurried Sunday format. At $49.99, it's a generous package that lets you savor these early strips exactly as Schulz drew and inked them himself.