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La filosofia di Snoopy
«La mia vita sta passando troppo veloce. La mia unica speranza è che si vada ai tempi supplementari!» (Snoopy)
«Il mondo dei Peanuts è un microcosmo, una piccola commedia umana sia per il lettore candido che per quello sofisticato.» (Umberto Eco)
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Prima apparizione: 4 ottobre 1952. Il bracchetto più famoso del mondo, incredibilmente fantasioso ed estremamente sicuro di sé, è un maestro del travestimento. Nei panni di Joe Falchetto è distaccato, imperturbabile, al di sopra delle parti; il cane figo che tutti vorremmo essere. Nei panni dell’asso della Prima guerra mondiale ingaggia combattimenti aerei contro il famoso Barone Rosso. E mentre riflette sulla vita dal tetto della sua cuccia, scrive il grande romanzo americano, viaggia sulla luna e trama piani di vendetta contro il gatto dei vicini.
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«Senza l'opera di Charles Schulz non avrei mai scoperta cosa può davvero essere una striscia a fumetti, ne' avrei desiderato diventare un autore io stesso.»
(Bill Watterson)
«Peanuts è stato, e continuerà a essere il miglior fumetto mai apparso sulla faccia della terra.» (Ray Bradbury)
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Questo ebook è ottimizzato per dispositivi con schermi più grandi.
«Il mondo dei Peanuts è un microcosmo, una piccola commedia umana sia per il lettore candido che per quello sofisticato.» (Umberto Eco)
***
Prima apparizione: 4 ottobre 1952. Il bracchetto più famoso del mondo, incredibilmente fantasioso ed estremamente sicuro di sé, è un maestro del travestimento. Nei panni di Joe Falchetto è distaccato, imperturbabile, al di sopra delle parti; il cane figo che tutti vorremmo essere. Nei panni dell’asso della Prima guerra mondiale ingaggia combattimenti aerei contro il famoso Barone Rosso. E mentre riflette sulla vita dal tetto della sua cuccia, scrive il grande romanzo americano, viaggia sulla luna e trama piani di vendetta contro il gatto dei vicini.
***
«Senza l'opera di Charles Schulz non avrei mai scoperta cosa può davvero essere una striscia a fumetti, ne' avrei desiderato diventare un autore io stesso.»
(Bill Watterson)
«Peanuts è stato, e continuerà a essere il miglior fumetto mai apparso sulla faccia della terra.» (Ray Bradbury)
***
Questo ebook è ottimizzato per dispositivi con schermi più grandi.
- GenresGraphic Novels
412 pages, Paperback
First published November 27, 2014
About the author
Charles M. Schulz
3,041 books1,671 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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December 7, 2014
Molto gradevoli, come sempre lo sono le “strisce” di Schulz. Tuttavia, questa operazione di estrapolare solo quelle che hanno come protagonista Snoopy non è del tutto riuscita. Per anni e anni ho letto la mitica rivista a fumetti “linus” e, di conseguenza, la maggior parte delle storie qui riprese la conoscevo già. Proprio per questo mi sono sembrate un po’ mozze, per così dire, perché finisce per mancare la cornice e l’atmosfera originale in cui erano inserite.
Faccio un esempio a caso. Rammento che quando Snoopy si compiaceva di aver ricevuto tantissime “valentine”, spesso venivano intercalate altre strisce in cui Charlie Brown si deprimeva per non averle ricevute affatto oppure sognava di consegnarne/riceverne una alla ragazzina coi capelli rossi.
Ad ogni modo, mi ha fatto piacere ripercorrere queste immagini, che mi hanno rimandato a un tempo lontano e più sereno.
Faccio un esempio a caso. Rammento che quando Snoopy si compiaceva di aver ricevuto tantissime “valentine”, spesso venivano intercalate altre strisce in cui Charlie Brown si deprimeva per non averle ricevute affatto oppure sognava di consegnarne/riceverne una alla ragazzina coi capelli rossi.
Ad ogni modo, mi ha fatto piacere ripercorrere queste immagini, che mi hanno rimandato a un tempo lontano e più sereno.
June 23, 2021
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June 21, 2025
Sono presenti alcuni refusi ed errori e una striscia in cui Snoopy non compare, ma da amante dei Peanuts mi è piaciuto molto. Peccato che le strisce siano molto piccole, ma essendo tante ci si può passare sopra.
September 21, 2025
Bellissimo 💖💖
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