Peanuts Every Sunday 1961-1965: 0 - Hardcover

Schulz, Charles M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606998722 ISBN 13: 9781606998724

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2015

Synopsis

Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. The early- to mid-1960s strips in our latest volume houses the first golden age of Peanuts Sundays in one gorgeous, full-color coffee table book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, but the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday: 1961-1965 has been scrupulously re-colored to match the original syndicate coloring — allowing readers to plunge into Charles Schulz’s marvelous world.

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Review:

These are beautiful books. Full color dust jackets and numbered bindings make for books that look great next to each other on the shelf. But you'll need a big shelf. ...[F]or the fan, they are a collection absolutely worth having.--Joel Neff

...Peanuts Every Sunday: 1961-1965 is stuffed with classics.... This is vintage Schulz at a time when he had perfected his style and voice; Peanuts idealized. When you think of Peanuts, this is really the primary era; these are the gags and conflicts that come to mind, with the versions of the characters that would become iconic, in Schulz's energetic and economical lines. ... All the gags, social commentary, whimsy, and biting honesty came together in simple, rhythmic page designs and vibrant primary colors. This collection is a particularly good one, with one great strip after another.

--John Parker

About the Author:

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).In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course, and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post--as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. 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. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts--and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate.) 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1606998722
• ISBN 13: 9781606998724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288