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Snoopy Stars / Snoopy Features #4
Snoopy Features as The Legal Beagle
Order in the court! With a great big nose for justice, this legal beagle is here to protect, defend, serve--and take a quick nap.
Originally published as Snoopy Stars as The Legal Beagle, it was later rereleased as Snoopy Features as The Legal Beagle.
Originally published as Snoopy Stars as The Legal Beagle, it was later rereleased as Snoopy Features as The Legal Beagle.
252 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Charles M. Schulz
3,021 books1,623 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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May 27, 2022
Remarkable!
This book about Snoopy being a lawyer and attorney is very good. His duties to his clients are fantastic.
But what’s remarkable is that he is unable to understand most legal terms and yet he still is the best attorney that a Peanut can afford.
So, come along with Snoopy and the Peanuts for some legal fun. You will not be disappointed.
This book about Snoopy being a lawyer and attorney is very good. His duties to his clients are fantastic.
But what’s remarkable is that he is unable to understand most legal terms and yet he still is the best attorney that a Peanut can afford.
So, come along with Snoopy and the Peanuts for some legal fun. You will not be disappointed.
May 11, 2017
Being a lawyer, this collection is a winning lawsuit for me. Not only does Snoopy play lawyer he also becomes a census worker. If I had a dollar for every Peanuts strip featuring Snoopy the lawyer that appeared in various law offices I have been in over my nearly 40 year legal career I could have retired years ago.
August 13, 2022
Hire Snoopy as your lawyer, and most likely you'll win your case. He's an adorable attorney with a hat, bowtie, and brief case. What judge would ever think he isn't adorable? Charlie Brown wouldn't doubt Snoopy's ability because he knows his beagle would win. Hands down, no questions asked. I recall a few of his lawyer moments. Strangely I have a memory blackout if I read it in this compilation or if I read it from the newspaper. Very cute. It would be great to read this graphic novel again.
January 8, 2018
In Snoopy the Legal Beagle, we follow Snoopy's life as a lawyer. In his first case he represents Peppermint Patty and the case against her over the dress code. Throughout the book he takes on cases over book banning from the school library, the stealing of blankets, and the legality of Ace Obedience School as a proper school for children.
Another great collection of Peanuts strips.
Another great collection of Peanuts strips.
May 20, 2017
A diversion.
March 4, 2018
I am working my way through the Peanuts collections. I enjoyed these but not quite as much as others. Still liked them a lot just didn't love this particular selection.
January 25, 2015
Classic Peanuts
January 18, 2020
I didn't get a lot of the jokes, but Snoopy was still charming as ever.
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