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The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 11: 1971 - 1972 (Complete Peanuts #11)
Peanuts surges into the 1970s with Schulz at the peak of his powers and influence: a few jokes about Bob Dylan, Women’s Liberation and “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex” (!)
aside, these two years are as timeless as Peanuts ever was.
Sally Brown—school phobia, malapropisms, unrequited love for Linus and all—elbows her way to center stage, at least among the hum
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Published
April 29th 2009
by Fantagraphics Books
(first published April 2009)
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There is a very subtle tonal shift in the Peanuts strips once Charles Schulz hit the 70s. It's nothing drastic. Through the 50s and 60s, the series still seemed very fresh (no small feat for a, at the time, 20 year old property!). Through those 20 years, you could almost see the tangible evolution of the characters, as their personalities solidified and even their visual designs began to settle down into a permenant state.
What this volume (and the last volume, '69-'70) sees happen ...more
What this volume (and the last volume, '69-'70) sees happen ...more
This is a very funny collection of strips.... er, make that a collection of very funny strips. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say a collection of strips, some of which are very funny. (others being just plain funny and others being meh) The highlights of this collection are running gags about The Six Bunny-Wunnies series, Joe Cool, the introduction of Marcie, Charlie Brown getting expelled from camp, Sally's neurotic relationship with school and various sagas of unrequited love. Those s...more
Snoopy becomes Joe Cool, Peppermint Patty meets Marcy at camp, Charlie Brown battles book banning, and Rerun Van Pelt is born. This is a particularly weak collection of Peanuts because of a couple of obnoxious ideas that they developed. Snoopy was probably at the height of his popularity, and Joe Cool pushed him over the top. I find Joe Cool to be rather boring and it seems like it would have been dated, even for the 1970s. Rerun is particularly irritating (he doesn't actually appear in this...more
Schultz goes too far! What should be Snoopy's fantasy life becomes part of the PEANUTS continuity when Snoopy is sent on a secret mission by the Head Beagle in a sequence that is part of the "reality" shared by the other characters. Schultz does not go far enough! The character of Franklin, his token African-American, has no personality of his own. He's just there when a character that has personality needs a straight man. These strips prove that Schultz tireless experimenting sometime...more
I don't have plenty of time these days, but I still get my Peanuts on for at least a few minutes every night. Comics are easy entertainement these days, I am reading a brick of a novel too (Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches), but in between my new job and rehearsals for Oliver! with my theatre group (we're under two weeks away from the premiere), I don't have plenty of down time. But, (finally) here's an update on a book I finished weeks ago.
This is a Snoopy-heavy volume, and ...more
This is a Snoopy-heavy volume, and ...more
Amazingly, still operating at peak powers, twenty years into the strip. The decline into cuteness that I thought would begin to show its dooming face hasn’t yet appeared. Sally Brown and Peppermint Patty star in this volume, though Linus, Snoopy, Lucy, and of course Charlie Brown have wonderful moments. Sally struggles to cope with school, her reports are hysterical, as does Peppermint Patty, who sits behind Franklin. The school forces her to wear shoes and a dress; her lawyer (Snoopy) can’t pre...more
This series is such a pleasure to read. And as the years pass, the gang gets better. We get the appearance of Joe Cool now, and Peppermint Pattie and Marcie also come along. The big star this time is Sally. The gang goes to summer camp, including Charlie Brown getting kicked out of camp for being a "troublemaker" through no fault of his own (go figure). And more. These comics are just great, and I think the publisher is doing a great job bringing them together. I am looking forward to ...more
These books make me smile!! I really enjoyed this volume, which featured the birth of Rerun, Lucy and Linus' younger sibling. It also had a few strips with Marcie, which I also enjoyed. It made me wonder when she arrives into the strip ful time. It's interesting to see the secondary characters; Frieda and Patty and violet making very small appearences as well. This delights me!
20 years into the strip, Schulz was still going strong, with new ideas and variations on the old. Some strips are obviously dated (secretaries taking shorthand and getting used to electric typewriters seem from another age), but most have a timeless appeal.
As I work through these volumes, I keep waiting to get to a point where "Peanuts" starts to feel trite, like it's lost its brilliance and is just coasting on its own success. And it keeps not happening - I'm amazed at the consistent quality of this strip.
The introduction was terrible but this book was great.
Introduces Re-Run Van Pelt.
The strip on my birthday was okay.
There's a lot with Peppermint Patty having a crush on Chuck.
Introduces Re-Run Van Pelt.
The strip on my birthday was okay.
There's a lot with Peppermint Patty having a crush on Chuck.
I noticed that by the 70's, Schultz seems to have mellowed some. There's not nearly as many strips with anger, humiliation, depression etc. as there were in the 60's.
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Pop culture aficionados, comics lovers, beagle enthusiasts, round-headed kids
Yet another couple of years down in the Peanuts saga. Besides a couple of shout-outs to banned books and psychedelic culture ("The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"), this volume shows its times a lot less than the previous two volumes.
One interesting detail I noticed toward the end though...Lucy's psychiatry booth raised its price to seven cents! I have a feeling it will change back to five cents soon, as I don't think I have ever seen any price for her valuable services before...more
One interesting detail I noticed toward the end though...Lucy's psychiatry booth raised its price to seven cents! I have a feeling it will change back to five cents soon, as I don't think I have ever seen any price for her valuable services before...more
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everyone should take a little time now and then to read their favorite cartoon...we all need some laughs and the rememberance of our childhood favorites!
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Schulz is a genius. I love spending time with his comics en masse. While not all art is a direct reflection of its creator, you can't help but feel like you get to know him a bit when you read year upon year of his work. I'm a Peanuts fan re-made. LOVE IT.
Still makes me laugh. :)
Rerun is introduced.
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Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied...more
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Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied...more
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