I recently bought nearly 200 Peanuts flongs, the molds used to make metal plates back in the days of relief printing, and they arrived from Sweden today! To celebrate this incredible treasure trove, I had a live unboxing on Thursday, May 20 at 10 am Pacific to explore the strips as I saw them for the first time. Along the way, I answered questions and provided some background on how newspaper syndication worked historically with etched plates, flongs, and stereotypes. You can watch below. (Post updated after event.)

I showed off a number of four-color Peanuts color separations, some original etched plates used to make flongs, and the 40-pound-plus newspaper plate of comic strips that I acquired last year!