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Peanuts Coronet #2
For the Love of Peanuts!
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128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published April 12, 1978
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Charles M. Schulz
3,029 books1,635 followersCharles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the Pioneer Press in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God.
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years, almost without interruption; during the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997. At its peak, Peanuts appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz stated that his routine every morning consisted of eating a jelly donut and sitting down to write the day's strip. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. He stubbornly refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him." In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999.
Schulz often touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side. Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, the first of several books he wrote on religion and Peanuts, and other popular culture items. From the late 1980s, however, Schulz described himself in interviews as a "secular humanist": “I do not go to church anymore... I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.”
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January 2, 2014
Lot of laughs, never a dull moment from Shultz's work.
October 2, 2007
Mine is a Fawcett Crest edition
June 4, 2016
Love these older Peanuts strips illustrations and the simplicity of childhood games from this era.
December 21, 2018
From Snoopy not acknowledging Charlie Brown, Lucy as a jumping rope expert to Linus and his 'handgun', it's never a boring story in this collection! Other than one particular page where Charlie Brown was kinda depressed and that one raised my curiosity as how far these comic strips came from Schulz real-life experiences at the time that he penned it.
March 8, 2024
A wonderful Peanuts classic.
May 7, 2010
One of the older books in the Peanuts series. . . . This was first published in 1952. The book's first cartoon features one of Charlie Brown's ill-fated adventures with kites. The first panel (even before copyright material) has him smiling and hopeful. No words pass his mouth throughout the strip. Frustration follows frustration--and the kite never flies. . . . The first strip AFTER the book 's copyright information tackles one of the recurring themes, Charlie Brown's baseball team. Here, we have an eight panel cartoon (probably from the Sunday papers??). After each pitch, Schroeder carries the ball back to Charlie Brown. Last panel, after Charlie Brown asks why he doesn't just throw the ball back, Schroeder, the catcher, says: "They'd know I could never throw as far as second base."
Another of the fine Peanuts books. . . .
Another of the fine Peanuts books. . . .
June 13, 2014
Who would think that the thoughts of a lazy dog and the actions of a group of kids could be so entertaining? This are selected cartoons from Good Grief, More Peanuts Vol. II and was first published in 1952. This means that they are almost as old as I am and the renegade canine and band of ankle-biters have been lifelong companions. Charles Schultz proves that all humor needn’t be sexually tainted to appeal to older audiences. Charlie Brown and his gang hold a special appeal for everyone and like Peter Pan, never grow up. I can happily recommend this to everyone that enjoys smiling at life.
October 14, 2013
Standard Peanuts comic strips from the fifties, when the strip was decidedly more low-key. Good artwork, though some of the characters are a lot different they they are now (especially Snoopy).
November 29, 2014
A lovely selection of early Snoopy strips, when Snoopy was a much simpler, proper dog-like character. I rather like that simplicity.
March 25, 2021
Some of the earliest Peanuts comics are brought together in this collection. It seems to focus a lot on Lucy.
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August 30, 2022
Way more existential than I was expecting for my first Peanuts outing. Schulz is a master.
My version is published by Fawcett, the way they arrange the panels here are very indicative of what Chester Brown would do with panel structure later on. I don’t doubt he read these and was inspired by the free flow.
My version is published by Fawcett, the way they arrange the panels here are very indicative of what Chester Brown would do with panel structure later on. I don’t doubt he read these and was inspired by the free flow.
April 16, 2017
You're really never going to see me give Snoopy & the Gang much less than 5 stars! This old collection, with strips dating back to the 1950s, is a delight. It also has the very rare (maybe the only) moment when Lucy yells to her Mom and the adult responds with language and not the now famous "womp womp womp womp womp," we all know & love so well. Still no Woodstock though...
December 3, 2015
Couldn't sleep at 2 AM so decided to read this. Feel like Charlie Brown could be the mascot for /r/me_irl
October 4, 2023
I have a 1977 printing of this book. It contains two page strips, presumably the weekend offerings from the early to the mid 1950s. It’s interesting to see the graphic and narrative styles evolve rapidly over that time. There are also rare events: a distinct parental voice intervenes, Pig Pen revealed in clean form, and Snoopy’s kennel seen from the front! Classics.
May 2, 2020
Great compilation of (very) short and (very) tender stories to have a good time. Some of them will really teach you a lesson or two. Quick read that throws you a couple of years back to remember and enjoy childhood once more.
May 28, 2024
when u are so sad and can’t sleep this is ideal reading material
May 17, 2025
Cute and nostalgic
September 17, 2025
Brilliant as always.
April 9, 2021
Fun, clean humor with delightful drawings of the gang.
💥 Recommended.
💥 Recommended.
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