High-Res Scans of Peanuts Flongs Now Available
A few months ago, I acquired over 200 flongs from a fellow in Sweden who had purchased them at a thrift store that, in turn, had bought them from an estate. These were all comics intended for publication in a Swedish newspaper, some in English and some in Swedish. The vast majority, 191 of them, were Sunday Peanuts comics flongs in English as color separations (see below).
Each Sunday comic required four flongs to produce the strip. Of the 191, there were 26 complete sets (104 plates); the rest are all loose plates, none of them the black or key plate (explained below). My suspicion is that people perusing the thrift store bought some of the black plates, as they have most of the detail of the strip, as a bit of interest, leaving the other plates behind.
After many hours of scanning, clean-up, rotation, cropping, labeling, and linking, all