Overview

Rounding out the first decade in this volume, major new additions to classic Peanuts lore come fast and furious here. Snoopy begins to take up residence atop his doghouse, and his repertoire of impressions increases exponentially. Lucy sets up her booth and offers her first five-cent psychiatric counsel. For the very first time, Linus spends all night in the pumpkin patch on his lonely vigil for the Great Pumpkin. Charlie Brown's sister Sally makes her appearance, first as an (off-panel) brand-new baby for Charlie to gush over, then as a toddler, and eventually a talking, thinking cast member. All this, and one of the most famous Peanuts strips ever: ""Happiness is a warm puppy."" Almost one hundred of the 731 strips collected in this volume (including many Sundays) have never been collected in any book since their original release, with one hundred more having been collected only once.The introduction is by comedienne extraordinaire Whoopi Goldberg, who reveals which Peanuts character she has tattooed on her body (and where), as well as telling of her meeting with ""Sparky"" Schulz, and her fascinating theory on Snoopy's brother Spike.

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This reissue project is a triumph for the cornucopian wonders of the wealthy west over the forces of cultural dissolution.

This reissue project is a triumph for the cornucopian wonders of the wealthy west over the forces of cultural dissolution.-- The American Spectator Undeniably crackling... the illustrations are a marvel of simplicity and the insights are haunting.-- Publishers Weekly One can scarcely overstate the importance of Peanuts to the comics, or overstate its influence on all of us who have followed.--Bill Watterson. creator of Calvin & Hobbes

One can scarcely overstate the importance of Peanuts to the comics, or overstate its influence on all of us who have followed. --Bill Watterson. creator of Calvin & Hobbes The Complete Peanuts isn't just the sum total of one man's life and work. [It is] ultimately a gift from the heart to each and every one of us from Charles Schulz, his heirs, and the good folks at Fantagraphics. It's a national treasure. Now that Schulz's classic is finally getting its bibliographic just desserts, consider replacing those tattered old Peanuts paperbacks with this definitive series. This reissue project is a triumph for the cornucopian wonders of the wealthy west over the forces of cultural dissolution. Undeniably crackling... the illustrations are a marvel of simplicity and the insights are haunting.

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Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit. He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in Li'l Folks. They bought the strip, renaming it Peanuts, a title Schulz always loathed. The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day-and the day before his last strip was published, having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand -- an unmatched achievement in comics. Whoopi Goldberg is a household name; she's one of the few people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony. She currently hosts the talk show The View.

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