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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781847670311
ISBN: 1847670318
Label: Canongate Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Canongate Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Studio: Canongate Books Ltd
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Good grief! The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 launches the most ambitious and most important project in the comics and cartooning genre: over a period of 12 years, Fantagraphics Books will release every daily and Sunday strip of Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts," the best-known and best-loved series in the world. Most everyone with an interest in its history has seen the very first strip ("Good ol' Charlie Brown... How I hate him!"), but this first volume follows it up with 287 pages (three daily strips or one Sunday per page) of vintage material in chronological order. "Peanuts" was unique at the time for portraying kids who seemed like real kids, but they also had a wisdom beyond their years, embodied especially by the lovable loser, Charlie Brown, who even in these early years has lost 4000 checker games in a row. We see him don his familiar jagged-stripe shirt for the first time (December 1950) and, at the age of 4, at his peak as a babe magnet. Shermy is the other significant boy, and the girls in their lives are Patty (not to be confused with Peppermint Patty) and Violet. Schroeder is an infant who has learned to sit up in order to play Beethoven on his toy piano. Snoopy is an anthropomorphic dog who plays baseball (April 1952) and has his own thoughts (October 1952). In March 1952 we meet a bug-eyed Lucy, who by November has been designated "Miss Fuss-Budget of 1952" and is pulling the football away from Charlie Brown (Violet had done it a year earlier). Her baby brother Linus arrives in July 1952. The book itself is beautifully packaged, the strips printed large and clear on high-quality paper and accompanied by an in-depth essay by David Michaelis, a 1987 interview with Schulz, an introduction by Garrison Keillor, and even an index of characters and subjects. It's so well-done that any reader will be impatient for the rest of the series, but in the meantime this is a book to savor. --David Horiuchi
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"Peanuts" is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Its characters - Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, and so many more - have become dearly loved icons for generation after generation. Now Charles Schulz's classic, "Peanuts", will be reprinted in its entirety for the first time. In these beautifully produced editions, the strip will be presented in full in chronological order. They will be the ultimate books for "Peanuts'" fans the world over. These first volumes will be of particular fascination to "Peanuts" aficionados. Many of the strips from the series' first two or three years have never been collected before, in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip. They include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we all know. And Snoopy debuts as a puppy!
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Calvin and Hobbes was my comic strip growing up. I received books of the strip for my birthdays, and I treated them like gold. To me, I was as excited about getting a Calvin and Hobbes book as my peers were about video games. It was a huge deal.
I remember reading some Peanuts strips early in life, but, since I was already prone to liking nothing that didn't have a stuffed tiger, I dismissed Schulz's works with a humph. Now, at a much more mature age, I decided to see just what made ... Read More
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I love and I mean love Peanuts but I think the first 2 years were not the best. Charlie Brown and gang were so little. Snoopy didn't do anything. I really liked it once they put in Sally, Peppermint Patty and Marcie. I will get every book but I don't think I will get this one. However I guess 1952 is a little better because Lucy gets put in and she was really funny in the 1950s and I mean really funny. This book includes 78 comics from 1950, 313 from 1951, and 366 from 1952 for a total of 757 comics. ... Read More
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There is no finer example of the American comic strip than "Peanuts". Charles Schulz was the gentle genius born to this art form and created the yardstick by which all other strips are measured. This is a beautifully produced first volume which will eventually present every strip in chronological order. Each volume has a different, heartfelt introduction and a short summary of Schulz's life. "Peanuts" is not simply a comic strip, it is a touchstone of American culture and its like will never be seen again. ... Read More
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This collection features the original Peanuts comics in its first 2 and 1/2 years. Not even the 1st Peanuts book includes all of the cartoons (I have the book and I don't remember it including the 1st cartoon where Shermy introduces Charlie Brown, sarcastically calling him "Good ol' Charlie Brown"). There are also cartoon from Holt's 2nd book More Peanuts. The 1st 5 characters included Charlie Brown (who started out naive and friendly), Patty (not Peppermint, she was just a cute girl with bobbed hair and a ... Read More
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These are the strips you seldom see reprinted and yet they say so much. The first two years of "Peanuts" introduces you not only to many of the key characters (who look somewhat different than they would in later years) but also to the usually gentle, yet occasionally sharp, humor of Charles M. Schulz, which was splendid from the start but would get even better as the years passed. As a bonus, you get to see Schroder and Linus as babies, and Lucy as a toddler. (In Schulz's comic-strip world, they would age, ... Read More
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