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Snoopy Features as The Great Entertainer
The beloved beagle plays to the crowd--including Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, and the rest of the Peanuts gang--in this hilarious comic strip collection.
Snoopy keeps us laughing with "pawpet" shows, impersonations, stories, and jokes.
This is a collection of original Peanuts comic strips featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the whole gang.
Snoopy keeps us laughing with "pawpet" shows, impersonations, stories, and jokes.
This is a collection of original Peanuts comic strips featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the whole gang.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
About the author
Charles M. Schulz
3,035 books1,654 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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March 15, 2022
Entertaining!
Snoopy and the Peanuts are full of jokes.
Snoopy is a great writer, at times, and responds to letters, with great wit and sarcasm.
Some of the jokes are lame and corny, but they’re coming from Snoopy so that makes them a lot of fun.
Good entertainment and you’ll enjoy it.
Snoopy and the Peanuts are full of jokes.
Snoopy is a great writer, at times, and responds to letters, with great wit and sarcasm.
Some of the jokes are lame and corny, but they’re coming from Snoopy so that makes them a lot of fun.
Good entertainment and you’ll enjoy it.
September 1, 2018
3/5
Cute, it made me smile.
Cute, it made me smile.
June 9, 2018
A quick read but funny.
I wonder if there really ever has been a puppet show of War and Peace? Snoopy does it in this book. I think the cast had shrunk as he only three paws he could use, plus a nose and possibly a tail. He had to save one paw to stand on.
I wonder if there really ever has been a puppet show of War and Peace? Snoopy does it in this book. I think the cast had shrunk as he only three paws he could use, plus a nose and possibly a tail. He had to save one paw to stand on.
January 2, 2018
In this collection of Snoopy cartoons he is entertaining the kids with his “pawpet” shows. For me this collection just didn’t hit the right notes for me. I found it to be okay at best. I still enjoyed it, but not as much as some of the other collections.
As with all of these collections it has DRM, so -1 point for that.
As with all of these collections it has DRM, so -1 point for that.
September 21, 2022
A great entertainer AND entertainment!
In this volume we see Snoopy open his own puppet theater, where he re-enacts great works of literature, including the Bible and War and Peace! He also starts his own advice column and gives himself and Woodstock headaches from falling off his doghouse while laughing too hard at his own answers. "That's no bagel, that's my beagle!"
In this volume we see Snoopy open his own puppet theater, where he re-enacts great works of literature, including the Bible and War and Peace! He also starts his own advice column and gives himself and Woodstock headaches from falling off his doghouse while laughing too hard at his own answers. "That's no bagel, that's my beagle!"
December 19, 2025
A cute book of Snoopy making jokes and entertaining some of the Peanuts Gang. It made me laugh out loud a couple of times.
😊 Happy Reading 😊
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😊 Happy Reading 😊
#LibbyApp #CharlesSchulz #SnoopyFeaturesastheEntertainer
#comics
January 29, 2019
So cute
You got to love a classic like Peanuts. I recognized some of them as cartoons that I have watched. It was a good read that allowed me to sit back reminisce and laugh.
You got to love a classic like Peanuts. I recognized some of them as cartoons that I have watched. It was a good read that allowed me to sit back reminisce and laugh.
September 18, 2022
I love that the library recently got several of these Peanuts books, feeling nostalgic.
April 11, 2024
What's not to love about Snoopy and Woodstock. :)
June 17, 2025
I forgot all the puns snoopy used to do, and I love the Pawpet shows. This reminds me of my childhood. I really loved snoopy when I was little.
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