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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781606992869
ISBN: 1606992864
Label: Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: September 08, 2009
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Studio: Fantagraphics Books
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Tennis, anyone? Billie Jean King serves up an introduction... and we celebrate Woodstock! The twelfth volume of Peanuts features a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences involving Peppermint Patty’s friend Marcie (including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcie’s costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), so it seems only right that this volume’s introduction should be served up by Schulz’s longtime friend, tennis champion Billie Jean King.
This volume also picks up on a few loose threads from the previous year, as the mysterious “Poochie” shows up in the flesh; Linus and Lucy’s new kid brother “Rerun” makes his first appearance, is almost immediately drafted onto the baseball team (where, thanks to his tiny strike zone, he wins a game), and embarks on his first terrifying journey on the back of his mom’s bike; and, in one of Peanuts’ oddest recurring storylines, the schoolhouse Sally used to talk to starts talking, or at least thinking, back at her!
The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 also includes one of the all-time classic Peanuts sequences, in which Charlie Brown’s baseball-oriented hallucinations finally manifest themselves in a baseball-shaped rash on his head. Forced to conceal the embarrassing discoloration with a bag worn over his head, Charlie Brown goes to camp as “Mister Sack” and discovers that, shorn of his identity, he’s suddenly well liked and successful. 730 b/w cartoons.
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What could be better than 2 years of Peanuts cartoons in one volume at the height of Charles M. Schulz's creative power? Answer: Nothing. To see strips you've never seen before is wonderful. To see strips you haven't seen in years is great. To laugh when the strips are funny, to be touched when the strips bring a pange of recognition of some of the pain of life are both emotions to be treasured that all of Schulz's work evoked. This is why Schulz was an artist of the highet calibre; because while ... Read More
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This latest collection's cover (Woodstock's tiny head casting a far-too-large shadow) and introduction (by Billie Jean King, who, unlike a number of the folks whom Fantagraphics has dragooned into providing PEANUTS-related musings, actually knew and was good friends with Charles Schulz) are first-rate, and several of this volume's continuities are among the most ambitious and/or outlandish "Sparky" ever concocted, but one could reasonably argue that Schulz' creation reached a "tipping point" in the ... Read More
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So said the jealous Lucy who's had to play 2nd (or more like 1,000,000th) fiddle to Beethoven in Schroeder's eyes. This is one of the stories to look forward to in this volume. I could've quoted Woodstock who dons the cover of this one but I didn't think "!!!!!" was too memorable a title for this review. This particular volume is known for its extended stories. One of the 1st features Charlie Brown getting a celebratory dinner for being such a great manager, complete with a visit from Charlie Brown's ... Read More
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Two of the all-time great Peanuts years were 1973-74. Many classics are there that we paperback Peanuts hoarders now can see in their original context.
WARNING: Do NOT read page 147 if you have not seen Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane." It spoils the ending--actually as a joke involving Lucy spoiling it for Linus, but still, I'm a little surprised at Schulz for it.
Watch "Citizen Kane," then read page 147, then laugh your head off.
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Two more great years of Peanuts. We get to see Rerun but he is only in 25 comics. Lots and lots of Peppermint Patty and Marcie is in pretty half as much as Peppermint Patty but Marcie does join the cast. Peppermint Patty finds out that Snoopy is a beagle and she gets her first D-.
Snoopy becomes a beagle scout. Lucy throws Schroeder's piano down the sewer. Lucy and Peppermint Patty go to get there ears pieced. We see very, very, very little of Violet, Patty, Freida, Roy, and 5. There are at ... Read More
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