Peanuts for Everybody

Peanuts Coronet #20

by Charles M. Schulz

THE LATEST EDITION IN TITAN COMICS’ HUGELY POPULAR PEANUTS FACSIMILE SERIES.

First published in 1974, it features 126 pages of classic Peanuts newspaper strips from 1958-1964.

This facsimile edition features 122 classic comic strips from the 1960s and features many classic characters, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Pig Pen, and many. Join them as they navigate their way through school, first crushes, the complexities of baseball, and the world of the forever unseen grown-ups and their crazy rules.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, 20th Century, Cartoon

128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1964

About the author

Charles 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.”

Reviews

[hannah schwirtz · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Elisabete Martins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reencontrar os «Peanuts» é maravilhoso, em particular o Snoopy. Neste livro, que compila vários dos trabalhos de Schulz publicados ao longo de 1958 e 1964, encontramos os velhos amigos, os jogos de beisebol, as estações do ano (e de como o Snoopy adora neve e acorda na sua casota coberto do focinho às patitas) e as guerrilhas, as divergências de opiniões e as tiradas cómicas, que tanto fazem pensar como entretêm.

Li este livro em poucas noites, é a leitura perfeita para relaxar e desligar do dia. Recomendo sobretudo para quem gosta dos «Peanuts» e de rir com algumas tiradas inteligentes que o autor passa sub-repticiamente na banda desenhada.

[Tristan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a 1977 printing of this book, which collects strips from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. It’s noticeable how these collections overlap and how little attention the editors paid to the continuity of themes. In this collection, Snoopy discovers he can fly by flapping his ears - and doesn’t like it - whereas in the previous collection he was happily flying around by spinning his ears. The cartoons are great, but the editing is decidedly dodgy. I need to find a complete and sequential edition of the cartoons. Nevertheless, always a pleasure to reread.

[Rodney Haydon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fun entry in the Peanuts collection with strips from the late 50's-early 60's. I'm so glad that Titan is continuing to reprint these classic Peanuts books.

[marcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

best christmas present ever!! also there is a picture in the book where lucy takes the football when charlie brown is kicking it, i have a pin of that scene!!!

[andré crombie · Rating 4 out of 5]

notes: lovely. the strips are great, but the compilation is a bit loose/sloppy — one day i’d like to read them chronologically.

[Mike Olson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is Charlie Brown and the gang. how could this be bad?

[Dale Rosso · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never a dull moment with Shultz's work.

[Brad Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

unknown author my ass.

[Cody Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's peanuts. It's perfection.