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Author: Charles M Schulz ,
Charles M. Schulz
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Dimensions:
Width: 17.20cm
, Height: 3.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.908kg
ISBN: 9781606998182
ISBN 10: 1606998188
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 31 August 2015
Recommended Age: From 9
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
The lines may be a little shaky at times, but the writing and humor are still sharp and hilarious, and the drawing remains a case study in casual simplicity that is much harder than it looks. ...[T]here's hardly a page in this book that didn't make me laugh or at least smile. What a remarkable achievement. Highly recommended.--Todd Klein (Eisner Award-winning letterer and designer)
More and more, it became difficult to predict the strip on a daily basis. It frequently got weird...--Rob Clough The lines may be a little shaky at times, but the writing and humor are still sharp and hilarious, and the drawing remains a case study in casual simplicity that is much harder than it looks. ...[T]here's hardly a page in this book that didn't make me laugh or at least smile. What a remarkable achievement. Highly recommended.--Todd Klein (Eisner Award-winning letterer and designer)
More and more, it became difficult to predict the strip on a daily basis. It frequently got weird...--Rob Clough
The lines may be a little shaky at times, but the writing and humor are still sharp and hilarious, and the drawing remains a case study in casual simplicity that is much harder than it looks. ...[T]here s hardly a page in this book that didn t make me laugh or at least smile. What a remarkable achievement. Highly recommended.--Todd Klein (Eisner Award-winning letterer and designer)
Author Information
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. RiffTrax is the successful comedy trio of Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, and Michael J. Nelson. All three were writers and stars of the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000, and have taken their unique blend of irreverent humor and ""riffing"" on movies to create an influential and devoted online audience. Their frequent live shows are streamed all the around the world.
