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Peanuts: Volume Two #9-12
Peanuts Vol. 4
New PEANUTS adventures, perfect for you and your Sweet Babboo! It's time to hop atop your doghouse biplane and escape into the wonderful world of legendary cartoonist Charles M. Schulz with brand-new adventures from an all-star lineup of writers and artists, and classic strips by Schulz himself. Featuring Charlie Brown and the whole Peanuts gang, this timeless collection of humor and imagination is sure to help you finally kick that football or take to the skies and defeat the Red Baron once and for all. Collects PEANUTS #9-12.
114 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 7, 2014
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Charles M. Schulz
3,038 books1,631 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, 2019
This volume was very Good. More new comics are in which I like. These new authors did a great job with the stories and capturing the essence of the characters from the classic strips. I think Schultz would have been proud with these new stories.
January 10, 2020
I was intrigued to learn that Peanuts lives on, though Schulz himself died in 2000, thanks to other writers. There's a bit of interesting Peanuts history sprinkled throughout this volume and the graphics are quite good, but almost all of the comics in this volume weren't written by Schulz. (I think the whole series is the same.) They aren't bad, but they aren't great.
March 7, 2022
Relevant today
Innocent humor with subtext that still resonates today. Wonderful characters! You can blow them up via Kindle and really enjoy the simple, yet expressive art. In this time of Putin's attack on Ukraine, I really enjoyed the feature on the meaning of security.
Innocent humor with subtext that still resonates today. Wonderful characters! You can blow them up via Kindle and really enjoy the simple, yet expressive art. In this time of Putin's attack on Ukraine, I really enjoyed the feature on the meaning of security.
March 7, 2020
It was extremely funny. My son introduced me to this comic book.
March 16, 2020
I enjoy the momentary commentary by Schulz providing some incite into the creation of certain comic strips. Though I have always enjoyed Peanuts.
August 8, 2020
Peanuts does it again
A fan all my life this collection of short and story peanuts is delightful. Shultz is one of the cartoon greats.
A fan all my life this collection of short and story peanuts is delightful. Shultz is one of the cartoon greats.
August 29, 2020
Peanuts
Like all Peanuts books, excellent. Schultz puts great character into his work. Read it, you will like it. Fun read
Like all Peanuts books, excellent. Schultz puts great character into his work. Read it, you will like it. Fun read
June 27, 2022
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January 23, 2025I seriously look up to Charles Schulz as a writer and as a creative person in general.
August 12, 2024
Cute and fun, tho I didn't realize these volumes weren't all original Schulz work.
December 28, 2015
This has been my favorite volume of the new series. There are some fun classics, but the highlights here are the new ones. Brush up your Beethoven, Tutor Trouble, and Twinkle Thinkle are all definitely modern but keep true to Schulz' style. Brush up Your Beethoven is probably my favorite individual story. I laughed out loud several times during this collection, and smiled more often than not. It is definitely worth the read, and a suitable followup for the series.
January 4, 2023
"Everyone said things would be better! Everyone said things would improve! But look at us: we're one whole day into the new year and everything is exactly the same!"
Thanks, Lucy, that's exactly my mood.
January 11, 2016
3.5 stars
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