It's Only A Game
Just finished reading "It's Only A Game - The Complete Color Collection" by Charles M. Schulz with Jim Sasseville, published by About Comics back in 2004.
I do remember reading about this collection when I read an article in the now defunct weekly Comic Times newspaper about Jim Sasseville and how he was only the second artist/cartoonist who drew Schulz's legendary "Peanuts" daily comic strip and how he worked with Schulz on his "It's Only A Game."
Sasseville was selected to draw the monthly "Peanuts" magazine for Dell Comics. Dell Comics did not reprint previously published comic strips and insisted on original stories. It was this relationship that lead to the creative partnership between Schulz and Sasseville and this collection contains the complete run of "It's Only A Game" - which ran for a little over a year in just a handful of newspapers. The strips are a little more detailed than those from Peanuts. The topics focus a lot on sports like bowling with the biggest focus on the card game Bridge.
Schulz and Sasseville parted ways after "It's Only A Game" came to an end. Sadly Sasseville did not work as a cartoonist again and eventually was hired as a graphic designer with Varian until here returned with them back in 1990.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as a look at one of three comic strips that Schulz created during his lifetime.
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Only-Game-...
I do remember reading about this collection when I read an article in the now defunct weekly Comic Times newspaper about Jim Sasseville and how he was only the second artist/cartoonist who drew Schulz's legendary "Peanuts" daily comic strip and how he worked with Schulz on his "It's Only A Game."
Sasseville was selected to draw the monthly "Peanuts" magazine for Dell Comics. Dell Comics did not reprint previously published comic strips and insisted on original stories. It was this relationship that lead to the creative partnership between Schulz and Sasseville and this collection contains the complete run of "It's Only A Game" - which ran for a little over a year in just a handful of newspapers. The strips are a little more detailed than those from Peanuts. The topics focus a lot on sports like bowling with the biggest focus on the card game Bridge.
Schulz and Sasseville parted ways after "It's Only A Game" came to an end. Sadly Sasseville did not work as a cartoonist again and eventually was hired as a graphic designer with Varian until here returned with them back in 1990.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as a look at one of three comic strips that Schulz created during his lifetime.
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Only-Game-...
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