Salvat presenta la colección definitiva de Snoopy. Una edición que reúne, de la primera a la última, todas las tiras diarias del perro más célebre del mundo de la historieta.
Snoopy, Charlie Brown y toda su pandilla han cautivado a varias generaciones de niños y adultos. Ahora, esta edición completa te permite formar parte de un mundo lleno de humor y ternura. Durante medio siglo, Charles Schulz se dedicó cada día a crear sus viñetas. El resultado se puede disfrutar en esta colección única: aquí está toda la vida del único perro del mundo que fantasea con ser, entre otros oficios, un as de la aviación de la Primera Guerra Mundial. ¡Deja volar tu imaginación con Todo Snoopy!
Esta entrega incluye todas las tiras publicadas en 1969.
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.”
Fue un muy buen año para la tira de Snoopy y para la humanidad en general, porque por primera vez, el hombre llegaba a otro mundo: la luna. Por desgracia para Charlie Brown, en ese mismo momento, la niña pelirroja que tanto adoraba se mudaba de casa y un grupo de varias tiras se centra en el terror de Carlitos de ir al menos a decirle Hola a esta niña antes de que se fuera de su vida para siempre. Lucía está más gruñona que nunca y también más violenta y es también el año, según se puede leer en un ensayo al comienzo del libro, que desaparecerá Shermy. Shermy y Paty —no Peppermint Paty la otra niña pelirroja y medio machorra— serán junto con Charlie Brown, los primero tres personajes en aparecer en la tira cómica. Es también el año donde, por una injusticia, corren a la maestra favorita de Linus por participar en una huelga.
Siempre me lo paso muy bien con Snoopy. Me gustan su humor, su ternura y las relaciones que se van estableciendo entre todos los personajes.
En este tomo están recopiladas todas las historietas publicadas en 1969. Me pareció muy bonito leer la introducción, saber qué estaba pasando ese año y ver después cómo se iba reflejando en los cómics. Y también averiguar que Snoopy llegó a la luna unas semanas antes que el hombre.