false 54596 2 Good grief! <I>The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952</I> 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. <I>--David Horiuchi</I> 2273941 3 5 2004 The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 (Vol. 1) total:397|5:262|4:106|3:21|2:6|1:2| 397 1811 515 49 0 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:49:05 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:49:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 22 05:50:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 11:08:53 -0700 2007
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This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination to Peanuts aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of Peanuts books published, many of the strips fr...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:02:48 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:07:36 -0800 2009
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