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Title: The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz, Garrison Keillor, Seth ISBN: 1-56097-589-X Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally -- complete!
Comment: I love "Peanuts." Wholeheartedly and without judgment. I think Charles Schulz was the wisest man who ever lived. I think that if aliens ever come to the planet Earth and want to understand what it really means to be human, they need look no further than these comic strips. I think this is, to be blunt, the highest of art.
So how could I pass up the chance to finally read the whole thing from the beginning?
I'm only 26, so I missed out on an awful lot of "Peanuts" printed before I was born and never reprinted in the books. That was the best part of this hardcover, collecting the first two years or so of the comic strip. For the first time since Sparky's passing in 2000, I was reading "Peanuts" comics I'd never read before.
The book also contains a few text pieces, including a really good extended interview with Schulz himself that reveals some interesting things about his idea of comics. This book is a great read and a must for anyone who loves "Peanuts."
Rating: 5
Summary: LONG OVERDUE PROJECT
Comment: Those who know Charlie Brown and the Peanuts from TV or from recent years comic strips may be a little surprised by the look and feel of the old strips. The cartooning is less polished, the characters less developed, but that's what makes this so much fun.
Fantagraphics is beginning a chronological reprinting of all of Charles Schultz' peanut strips. Each volume in the series will run approximately 320 pages in a 8" x 6 1/2" hardcover format, presenting two years of strips along with supplementary material. The series will present the entire run in chronological order, dailies and Sundays. Since the strip began in late 1950, the first volume will include all the strips from 1950, 1951, and 1952, but subsequent volumes will each comprise exactly two years. Dailies will run three to a page, while Sunday strips will each take up a full page and be printed in black-and-white, an aesthetic choice agreed upon by the editors, the designer, and Mrs. Schulz.
Most of these strips from the first couple of years have never been published before so it's quite interesting to see the genesis of the characters. Some of the original cast (Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus) - originall are infants and and evolve into the kids we know today as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a tiny puppy!
Still, despite the rough feel of these early strips, you can see the wry humor of Schultz fully on display. I heartily recommend this for ANY Peanuts fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent
Comment: My grandmother is (still) a great collector of all things Snoopy. Back in the 70's, when I used to visit my grandmother's house, I remember spending a lot of time reading some of those early collections of Peanuts cartoon strips. They are one of the many great memories of my youth. Now, we have a collection of the very first Peanuts strips. Magnificent!
How many of us still remember the beginning? So many things would grow and change. Violet and Patty (not Peppermint Patty) were Charlie Brown's "girlfriends" whom he could torment as much as he was tormented by them. Violet was actually the first to pull the football away from Charlie Brown. Snoopy was still a dog with no words. Schroeder is very prominent as a child prodigy with his love of piano and growing love of Beethoven. Charlie Brown is the catcher for the baseball team. Lucy & Linus make there first appearances. And so much more. Still, we can see this wonderful world taking shape and we can see how it will become to be this most beloved of comics.
This volume also contains a nice introduction by Garrison Keillor and concludes with an interesting interview of Charles Schultz, enlightening us to some of his own feelings about his strip and what has become of the world of comics.
As the first of a projected twenty-five volumes collecting all the Peanuts strips to be released every six months for the next twelve years, all I can say is I can't wait for volume 2.
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Title: The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz, Walter Cronkite, Seth ISBN: 1560976144 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: October, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy by Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0345442725 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title:Walt Disney Treasures - The Chronological Donald, Volume 1 (1934 - 1941) ASIN: B0000BWVAG Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Pub. Date: 18 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $32.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $28.04 |
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Title: Who's on First, Charlie Brown? by Charles M. Schulz ISBN: 0345464125 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines ASIN: B0000BWVAH Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Pub. Date: 18 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $32.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $28.04 |
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