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Snoopy and His Sopwith Camel
Remember the last page of Charles M. Schulz's best-selling book Snoopy and the Red Baron? America's favorite World War I flying ace is shaking his fist at the sky as he vows, "Someday I'll get you, Red Baron!" Now Snoopy is up and at him again! Will he keep his vow ... or will his arch enemy in the familiar Fokker Triplane triumph again? And what of the shy country lass with whom he shares a root beer? What is her role in our ace pilot's mission to "search and destroy" an enemy ammunition train? Again Mr. Schulz presents a war novelist's war novel that speaks compassionately of the fears, the torments and the rages of battle, and of a now legendary time when the impassioned cry was first heard across the battlefields of Europe: "What are we all doing here? This war is madness. Curse you, Red Baron!"
- GenresComics
64 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1969
About the author
Charles M. Schulz
3,015 books1,662 followersCharles 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 the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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 the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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July 23, 2021
I took my five year old son the Chino Planes of Fame Air Museum; they had a WWI English Sopwith Camel biplane on display. My son immediately piped up and declared that this was the airplane Snoopy loved to fly while fighting the Red Barron. I told him he was not wrong.
December 20, 2021
"Snoopy go so mad at the beginning and he gurn d his house into an airplane so he could fly away to join another family. He wasn't mad at the whole family though, just Charlie Brown because he wasn't feeding him. I liked all the colored pages." -Cadee, age 9
April 9, 2021
Its cute.
February 4, 2020
Parempi tämäkin oli kuin perusstrippikokoelmat.
November 11, 2021
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I actually preferred this one :) and now i want a toasted muffin and root beer lol
I actually preferred this one :) and now i want a toasted muffin and root beer lol
September 30, 2024
Unfortunately, my edition is falling apart, but the text itself holds up well with bonus points provided for the cardstock pages.
October 22, 2024
I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT
April 24, 2010
It's around 60 pages of Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel by Charles M. Schultz from 1969. Not a collection of the Peanuts comic strips but an independent storyline from what I can tell. Peanuts was a big favorite for me as a little girl, but I remember I wasn't all that taken with the Sopwith Camel storylines. This book is unusual for, as touted on the cover "color on every page." This is among the first books I ever owned. I think the Peanuts characters are still capable of charming today's children. Looking at them still brings a smile.
August 18, 2007
Snoopy with his imagination running wild, is a World War II pilot and everyone is either an ally or an enemy. I have the paperback version, with colorful inside paper.
January 21, 2012
Obviously one of my favorites books. Time and Time again Snoopy sets out to save the world from the Red Baron. I loved it. I own the first edition 1969. What a treasure.
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