All the winters' snow we had melted. Then it snowed today. Not like in Colorado and Wyoming but enough. So winter came back for a day.
These two books are a couple of the earliest items I have from when I was a kid. They date from 1966 and 1967. They may actually be the very ones that introduced me to Peanuts. They're also from the time I first started collecting trading cards. The books came from Roband's Drugs on California and Pratt in Chicago. It's no longer there. That store also supplied most if not all of the thousands of cards I still have, many of which you've seen here.
I still love Charlie Brown and the gang but the strip that followed as a favorite was Gary Larson's The Far Side. I bought this behemoth of a set for my wife when we were dating. It weighs about 20 pounds and the books are over 14 inches tall.
Here's a small taste. Rat is one of the main characters (he'd say star). The guy on the right in the last box is Stephan. He drives the characters crazy with elaborate puns and they often threaten him both verbally and physically.
What's the first comic strip you recall liking? How about now?
