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The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 13: 1975-1976 (Complete Peanuts #13)
That’s right! With this volume, The Complete Peanuts reaches the halfway point of Charles M. Schulz’s astounding half-century run on the greatest comic strip of all time.
These years are especially fecund in terms of new canine characters, as Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike
(from Needles), his beloved sister Belle (from Kansas City), and... did you know he ha
Hardcover, 325 pages
Published
April 20th 2010
by Fantagraphics Books
(first published 2010)
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This volume marks the half way point in this magnificent project by Fantagraphics Books and, after 25 years of working his strip, Schulz is still, if not at the very top of his game, near enough to the top. It’s a very enjoyable anthology with fresh spins on old chestnuts (Charlie Brown’s poor baseball team, Sally and Peppermint Patty’s school woes, Lucy unrequited love for Schroeder, etc.), with new characters and twists (Snoopy and Linus compete for the affections of young lady nicknamed Truff...more
Snoopy's brother Spike comes to visit and Peppermint Patty goes to obedience school. Peanuts by this point is kind of losing its steam. While it still is one of the better comic strips, the routines that once made it unique are starting to make it feel really repetitive. The story becomes less focused on the characters as a whole and more Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, and Charlie Brown focused while many of the other interesting characters seem to be lost. Snoopy's family is introduced in this c...more
It's hard to be reviewing fifty years of Peanuts strips without saying almost the same thing every time. However, there is a difference in these volumes, the development of the stories and characters and their changes do become evident to astute fans.
That's perhaps the reason I don't rate this quite as high up there as some of my very favorites.
I absolutely adore the development of the characters. My very favorite book series or TV shows have always had archetypes; characters w...more
That's perhaps the reason I don't rate this quite as high up there as some of my very favorites.
I absolutely adore the development of the characters. My very favorite book series or TV shows have always had archetypes; characters w...more
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I think it's about time to jump ship on this series. As effortlessly great as Schulz is this is the first point he's starting to show some cracks. Spike never clicked as a character to me ... too many sequences with the talking school bldg and one of the many layers of meanness of Peanuts is sheared off by this point. Still not the Snoopy obsessed collapse of the later 70s and 80s. Obviously the rating as in the inflated Schulz scale and would rate higher if not for the preceding excellence of t...more
Schulz at his best. Lots of literary references, the blurring of fantasy and naturalistic story elements, the further development of certain characters, especially Marcie, and a stronger integration of Woodstock into Snoopy's world. There are even cartoons in which Charlie Brown knows what Snoopy is thinking. Great stuff.
I have read a few reviews that have commented that Schultz has begun to lose steam as of this volume. However I disagree. I enjoyed the little story arcs he includes
In this one, in particular the one featuring Peppermint Patty going to dog school. I laughed out loud!!
In this one, in particular the one featuring Peppermint Patty going to dog school. I laughed out loud!!
Part of the Complete Peanuts Collection with all the Dailies and Sunday comic strips from 1975 to Dec. 1976. I remember reading some of these in little paperback book collections I bought in elementary and junior high school. It was a nice trip down memory lane plus several new stories for me to read about Charlie, Snoopy and the rest of the gang.
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Snoopy watched UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS! he wants to stay with Mrs. Bridges & Mr. Hudson or preferably Lady Georgina when he goes to Wimbledon.
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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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