Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

The Complete Peanuts

By Charles M. Schulz. PEANUTS is one of the most successful comic strips in the history of the medium as well as one of the most acclaimed strips ever published. The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's masterpiece will publish, for the very first time, every PEANUTS strip that Schulz produced, from his first strip in 1950 through his last strip in 2000. 25 volumes are intended, at a rate of 2 per year. 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 includes all the strips from 1950, 1951, and 1952, but subsequent volumes each comprise exactly two years. Dailies run three to a page, while Sunday strips each take up a full page and are printed in black-and-white, an aesthetic choice agreed upon by the editors, the designer, and Charles Schulz's widow, Jean Schulz.
The first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination to PEANUTS aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of PEANUTS books published, many of the strips from the series’ first two or three years have never been collected before, in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip and include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we’re all familiar with. (Among other things, three major cast members, Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus, initially show up as infants and only “grow” into their final “mature” selves as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a puppy!) Thus THE COMPLETE PEANUTS offers a unique chance to see a master of the artform refine his skills and solidify his universe, day by day, week by week, month by month.

Volume 1 reprints strips from 1950-1952
Volume 2 reprints strips from 1953-1954
Volume 3 reprints strips from 1955-1956
Volume 4 reprints strips from 1957-1958
Volume 5 reprints strips from 1959-1960
Volume 6 reprints strips from 1961-1962
Volume 7 reprints strips from 1963-1964
Volume 8 reprints strips from 1965-1966
Volume 9 reprints strips from 1967-1968
Volume 10 reprints strips from 1969-1970
Volume 11 reprints strips from 1971-1972
Volume 12 reprints strips from 1973-1974

Each is 8x6½, 324-364 pages, black & white, hardcover with dustjacket, .....$28.99 each

Peanuts : A Golden Celebration
The Art and Story of the World's Best-Loved Comic Strip

• By Charles Schulz. Honors the momentous 50th anniversary of Charlie Brown and the gang with over 1,000 carefully selected strips that tell the story of Peanuts like no other book before. In Schulz's own words we learn how he came to create the world's most popular comic strip characters from nostalgic and sometimes painful memories of growing up - such as the agony of classroom valentine exchange and the longing for a little red-haired girl.

• From the debut of Peanuts on October 2, 1950, to the golden jubilee, here are 50 years of the favorite episodes, and the firsts, such as the first time Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown. Included are scenes from the beloved TV specials. These are the strips and events that have made Peanuts an awesome phenomenon, appearing in 2,600 newspapers worldwide every day. Not bad for a little round-headed kid called Charlie Brown!
Let the celebration begin!
10x12 hardcover with dustjacket, 256 pages, black & white and color throughout ....$39.95

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Schulz's Youth
By Charles M. Schulz. Between 1956 and 1965, as Peanuts was becoming an international phenomenon, Schulz also drew a much less famous comic strip. Young Pillars was a biweekly single-panel cartoon for the Church of God's teen magazine Youth, mostly about church-related themes: youth fellowship picnics, Sunday school homework, heavy stacks of Bible commentaries. Several hundred of them are collected here, along with a few other church-connected single-panel cartoons Schulz drew in the '60s and some notes explaining jokes whose sense has been lost to time. With its cast of more-or-less devout teenagers, Young Pillars generally lacks the biting wit and underlying darkness of Peanuts, although Schulz still gets off some zingers. ("Don't bother me," says the strip's most regular character, a gangly fellow who could be a 16-year-old Shermy. "I'm looking for a verse of Scripture to back up one of my preconceived notions!") It's far from Schulz's best work, but it fleshes out the theological concerns that were rarely far from the core of Peanuts. It's also fascinating to see his inimitable wobbly line and deadpan sense of humor in a different context, and his gift for capturing facial expressions with a few lines in drawings of characters older than the wise children that were his specialty. 6x6, 296 pages, b&w, softcover, .... $14.95

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It's Only A Game
By Charles M. Schulz and Jim Sasseville. In the late 1950's, amidst the surging popularity of Peanuts and during a strongly creative period, Charles M. Schulz created his only other syndicated newspaper comic. It's Only a Game focused on the fun and foibles of people and their pastimes: golf, bowling, bridge, fishing, and more. This bouncy material, full of Schulz's signature wit, has for decades been considered one of the lost treasures of the comics field. Now, almost half a century later, this material is collected into book form for the first time! Commentary and insight is provided by artist and cartoonist Jim Sasseville, who worked with Schulz on the feature. Softcover, 6x7, 240 black and white pages ....$14.95

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