"This Is Your Life, Charlie Brown"
Just finished reading "This Is Your Life, Charlie Brown" by Charles M. Schulz, published by Fawcett Crest back in 1963.
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 comic strips collected in "This Is Your Life, Charlie Brown" originally appeared in news papers between 1960-1962 - the year I was born - and is note worthy because it features Sally, Charlie's sister, as an infant; and introduces Fredia to the Peanuts continuity until she get replaced by Woodstock as someone for Snoopy to interact with, and it also introduces Fredia's cat.
The most memorable sequence in this collection is when Lucy steals and buries Linus' blanket in an attempt to cure him of his addiction.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS.
https://www.amazon.com/CHARLIE-BROWN-...
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 comic strips collected in "This Is Your Life, Charlie Brown" originally appeared in news papers between 1960-1962 - the year I was born - and is note worthy because it features Sally, Charlie's sister, as an infant; and introduces Fredia to the Peanuts continuity until she get replaced by Woodstock as someone for Snoopy to interact with, and it also introduces Fredia's cat.
The most memorable sequence in this collection is when Lucy steals and buries Linus' blanket in an attempt to cure him of his addiction.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS.
https://www.amazon.com/CHARLIE-BROWN-...
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