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...[T]hese later comics remain consistently witty and entertaining, and reflect Schulz's continued mastery of comedic timing within a four-panel layout.... Consistently subtle yet always timely, after 30 years, Schulz still had a winning formula on his hands. --Phil Guie

<em>The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984</em> is an excellent installment of an excellent series. <em>Peanuts</em> is a standalone achievement that deserves every accolade it has received. Fantagraphics reprints have more than risen to the challenge of giving <em>Peanuts</em> the comprehensive editions it has long deserved. Stellar. --Eric Hoffman

Fantagraphics Books continues to make available . . . Peanuts cartoons in attractive books that make nice keepsakes. . . Lots of fun things are happening with the Peanuts gang including Snoopy's brother Spike [being] attack[ed] by coyotes in the desert . . . and Charlie Brown joins Peppermint Patty's baseball team as a mascot.... As with other Peanuts books, The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 would make a nice gift for those who enjoy Peanuts. . . --Glenn Perrett ...[T]hese later comics remain consistently witty and entertaining, and reflect Schulz's continued mastery of comedic timing within a four-panel layout.... Consistently subtle yet always timely, after 30 years, Schulz still had a winning formula on his hands. --Phil Guie The seventeenth volume of . . . [The Compete Peanuts] is just as delightful as all the rest. Yes, the ink line of Charles Schulz is a little wobbly at times, but his humor is just as sharp as ever...if you want reading material that will make you smile and laugh it s hard to beat this series. And I m continuing to admire the subtle and classy cover designs by Seth. --Todd Klein The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 is an excellent installment of an excellent series. Peanuts is a standalone achievement that deserves every accolade it has received. Fantagraphics reprints have more than risen to the challenge of giving Peanuts the comprehensive editions it has long deserved. Stellar. --Eric Hoffman The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 is an excellent installment of an excellent series. ...Peanuts is a standalone achievement that deserves every accolade it has received. Fantagraphics' reprints have more than risen to the challenge of giving Peanuts the comprehensive editions it has long deserved. Stellar. --Eric Hoffman

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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. Leonard Maltin is best known as a film critic, who, for many years, released an eponymous movie review guide.

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