We're On Your Side, Charlie Brown
Just finished reading "We're On Your Side, Charlie Brown" by Charles M. Schulz, published by Fawcett Crest.
Many frequent visitors to Barnes & Noble and other "big box" bookstores and independently owned bookstores with physical retail locations will find it hard to believe that once upon a time that bookstores did not have sections devoted entirely to graphic novels like they do nowadays.
Now the bookstores of old did have shelves/sections devoted to what I call "comic strip books" which essentially were collections of previously ran strips of a newspaper comic ran that were reprinted in paperback. It was really only later, at least here in the Untied States, where hardcover collections of comic strips like "Calvin & Hobbes" and "The Farside" were reprinted in hardcover and readily available to collectors and consumers here in the United States and across the world. [Sidenote: Just wait to Zack and Jeff when they find out who gets which collection in my will Bwahahahahahahaha].
While Michelle's Bookstore in the Brynn Marr shopping center in Jacksonville, North Carolina closed its doors for the last time in the mid-1990s, they did have a section that was ceiling-to-floor of shelves filled with comic strip books - a majority of which "Peanuts" books by Charles M. Schulz. Schulz, shared a similarity to Andre Norton in the 1970s because they completely dominated the shelves in their respective sections in bookstores.
Now a majority of my "Peanuts" books were lost in time due to when we moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and I got my "replacement" copies at Chamblin's Bookmine out on Roosevelt Avenue.
The "Peanuts" strips in "We're on Your Side, Charlie Brown" originally were printed in newspapers from 1957-to-1959. Now this is only my opinion, and I don't have access to the newspapers that they were printed in - though I probably could go the UNF Library and access them on microfiche. I'm NOT going to pay for online access to a newspaper morgue. I do believe that the "Peanuts" strips in this collection show that Schulz had reached the "modern" era style of drawing in his work.
One of the main sequences in this collection is how Lucy and Linus interact with each other over her fascination and ongoing study of bugs - which for the time in the late 1950s was quiet progressive and forward thinking when looking back with Modern eyes, because Schulz was stating that it was perfectly acceptable for girls and young women to pursue fields in science.
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Were-your-side...
Many frequent visitors to Barnes & Noble and other "big box" bookstores and independently owned bookstores with physical retail locations will find it hard to believe that once upon a time that bookstores did not have sections devoted entirely to graphic novels like they do nowadays.
Now the bookstores of old did have shelves/sections devoted to what I call "comic strip books" which essentially were collections of previously ran strips of a newspaper comic ran that were reprinted in paperback. It was really only later, at least here in the Untied States, where hardcover collections of comic strips like "Calvin & Hobbes" and "The Farside" were reprinted in hardcover and readily available to collectors and consumers here in the United States and across the world. [Sidenote: Just wait to Zack and Jeff when they find out who gets which collection in my will Bwahahahahahahaha].
While Michelle's Bookstore in the Brynn Marr shopping center in Jacksonville, North Carolina closed its doors for the last time in the mid-1990s, they did have a section that was ceiling-to-floor of shelves filled with comic strip books - a majority of which "Peanuts" books by Charles M. Schulz. Schulz, shared a similarity to Andre Norton in the 1970s because they completely dominated the shelves in their respective sections in bookstores.
Now a majority of my "Peanuts" books were lost in time due to when we moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and I got my "replacement" copies at Chamblin's Bookmine out on Roosevelt Avenue.
The "Peanuts" strips in "We're on Your Side, Charlie Brown" originally were printed in newspapers from 1957-to-1959. Now this is only my opinion, and I don't have access to the newspapers that they were printed in - though I probably could go the UNF Library and access them on microfiche. I'm NOT going to pay for online access to a newspaper morgue. I do believe that the "Peanuts" strips in this collection show that Schulz had reached the "modern" era style of drawing in his work.
One of the main sequences in this collection is how Lucy and Linus interact with each other over her fascination and ongoing study of bugs - which for the time in the late 1950s was quiet progressive and forward thinking when looking back with Modern eyes, because Schulz was stating that it was perfectly acceptable for girls and young women to pursue fields in science.
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Were-your-side...
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