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Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown
America's most beloved comic strip, Peanuts, is now a major motion picture produced by Blue Sky Studios. Now you can collect the first ten original comic strip collections, published by Titan Comics!
A ninth collection of classic Peanuts newspaper comic strips covers the period 1959 -1960 and sees the introduction of Charlie Brown's sister, Sally. This book is a facsimile edition of the ninth Peanuts collection originally published back in 1960 by the Clarke, Irwin & Company, Ltd of Toronto, Canada.
This collection of daily newspaper strips covers the period 1959 - 1960 and features the introduction of Charlie Brown's baby sister, Sally who was the first new character in five years to be added to the strip.
A ninth collection of classic Peanuts newspaper comic strips covers the period 1959 -1960 and sees the introduction of Charlie Brown's sister, Sally. This book is a facsimile edition of the ninth Peanuts collection originally published back in 1960 by the Clarke, Irwin & Company, Ltd of Toronto, Canada.
This collection of daily newspaper strips covers the period 1959 - 1960 and features the introduction of Charlie Brown's baby sister, Sally who was the first new character in five years to be added to the strip.
124 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1960
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Charles M. Schulz
3,021 books1,641 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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November 13, 2021
I LOVE MANKIND, IT'S PEOPLE I CAN'T STAND
Caro papà Natale, ci è giunto a conoscenza che tu scegli i tuoi doni in base al comportamento di ogni singolo bambino. In altre parole tu giudichi se il bambino è stato buono o cattivo. Credi davvero saggio azzardare un simile giudizio? Cos'è il bene? Cos'è il male? Si può dire al proprio simile "Tu sei cattivo... Io sono buono"?
Di tutti i Charlie Brown del mondo lui è il più Charlie Brown.
Adoro questo mondo senza adulti.
Caro papà Natale, ci è giunto a conoscenza che tu scegli i tuoi doni in base al comportamento di ogni singolo bambino. In altre parole tu giudichi se il bambino è stato buono o cattivo. Credi davvero saggio azzardare un simile giudizio? Cos'è il bene? Cos'è il male? Si può dire al proprio simile "Tu sei cattivo... Io sono buono"?
Di tutti i Charlie Brown del mondo lui è il più Charlie Brown.
Adoro questo mondo senza adulti.
September 24, 2019
Daily strips from 1959 and 1960. Sally is born and later in the book makes her first appearance. Some characters who vanished over the years like Patty,not of the Peppermint variety, and Violet are featured.
September 7, 2022
Questa è una raccolta di strisce abbastanza datate dei Peanuts, risalenti al biennio 1959-1960. Contengono, tra le varie cose, anche la nascita di Sally, la sorellina di Charlie Brown, ma non è di lei che voglio parlare, bensì dell'altro personaggio femminile, ossia Lucy.
Sorella maggiore di Linus, è all'opposto sia del fratellino sia del povero Charlie Brown, di cui è anche la nemesi. Infatti, come nota Umberto Eco, Lucy rappresenta la mentalità imprenditoriale (si fa pagare per le sue analisi psichiatriche!) imperante nella società americana, alla quale Charlie Brown non sa adeguarsi. Tuttavia, afferma Vittorio Spinazzola, Lucy non è tutta d'un pezzo: dietro il suo ostentato egoismo e il materialismo, nasconde un'insicurezza che, a differenza degli altri bambini dei Peanuts, non riesce a esorcizzare con l'autoanalisi.
Insomma, ogni personaggio di Schulz cela una profondità davvero singolare per una striscia comica. Siamo davanti a un capolavoro a fumetti.
Sorella maggiore di Linus, è all'opposto sia del fratellino sia del povero Charlie Brown, di cui è anche la nemesi. Infatti, come nota Umberto Eco, Lucy rappresenta la mentalità imprenditoriale (si fa pagare per le sue analisi psichiatriche!) imperante nella società americana, alla quale Charlie Brown non sa adeguarsi. Tuttavia, afferma Vittorio Spinazzola, Lucy non è tutta d'un pezzo: dietro il suo ostentato egoismo e il materialismo, nasconde un'insicurezza che, a differenza degli altri bambini dei Peanuts, non riesce a esorcizzare con l'autoanalisi.
Insomma, ogni personaggio di Schulz cela una profondità davvero singolare per una striscia comica. Siamo davanti a un capolavoro a fumetti.
May 9, 2019
I had thought that this would be a collection of Peanuts cartoons over the years entirely about Charlie Brown and his kite, just as "Snoopy's Tennis Book" was entirely about tennis. I'd given "Snoopy's Tennis Book" to a sister who loves the game.
"Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown" did have quite a few cartoons on the kite incidents, but it also had his baby sister Sally being born, various worries over the state of the world, Snoopy's philosophy on the falling leaves, and Linus' crush on his teacher, although he kept forgetting to bring in eggshells for a project.
A pleasant read, and I'm not really sorry that it wasn't all about Charlie Brown and his kites.
My favorite line was by Linus over his disillusionment with the Great Pumpkin: "I was a victim of false doctrine!" In the more modern renditions of the Great Pumpkin, Linus just vowed to believe harder, which never worked either.
"Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown" did have quite a few cartoons on the kite incidents, but it also had his baby sister Sally being born, various worries over the state of the world, Snoopy's philosophy on the falling leaves, and Linus' crush on his teacher, although he kept forgetting to bring in eggshells for a project.
A pleasant read, and I'm not really sorry that it wasn't all about Charlie Brown and his kites.
My favorite line was by Linus over his disillusionment with the Great Pumpkin: "I was a victim of false doctrine!" In the more modern renditions of the Great Pumpkin, Linus just vowed to believe harder, which never worked either.
January 15, 2021
3.5 stars.
This was such a nostalgic read. Had a lot of fun reading this.
This was such a nostalgic read. Had a lot of fun reading this.
October 12, 2019
I could read this all day~ 😌
July 29, 2020
All Peanuts get five stars from me! The first appearance of the Great Pumpkin and the birth of Sally Brown happened in 1959 -1960. These paperbacks are fun little reads, but the strips are out of order (and some are missing). If you are a true Peanuts fan, read The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960.
June 13, 2020
And once again - will the Kite-Eating Tree gobble up Charlie's kite, if he can finally get it off the ground!?
March 18, 2022
Classic
May 10, 2023
Such a cute little book! I love this!
November 21, 2023
Good grief!
November 7, 2025
Charlie Brown...... need I say more? you know it’s good
April 27, 2025
Poor Charlie Brown. He tries his best, doesn't he?
In this book, his little sister Sally makes her first debut!
In this book, his little sister Sally makes her first debut!
September 22, 2010
As one might expect, Shultz's drawings are charming, but I'm not sure I get the jokes. Come to think of it, are these jokes? Is the last panel on each page supposed to be funnier than the panels that preceded it?
January 27, 2015
Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally, is born. Patty and Charlie Brown speculate whether Pig-pen might be carrying the dust of ancient civilisations. Snoopy approves of mice being sent into space instead of dogs. Linus write to the Great Pumpkin yet again. All Life is Here!
May 6, 2011
It's Peanuts. Who doesn't like Peanuts?
September 17, 2015
I have a lot of these books. But I never read this one so yesterday I started reading it and really like it. It's the funniest book I ever read!
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