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Peanuts: Volume Two #5-8
Peanuts Vol. 3
Happiness is a new PEANUTS collection, Charlie Brown! The whole gang is back in this third volume, featuring brand-new original stories from a variety of writers and artists, as well as classic strips from the legendary Charles M. Schulz.
Join the Flying Ace, Linus, Pig-Pen, Schroeder, Sally, Marcie, Franklin, Peppermint Patty, Rerun, and more of your favorite characters in this curated medley of humorous stories that takes readers from the pitcher's mound to the tip-top of Snoopy's doghouse.The Peanuts gang returns to comic books for the first time since the 1960s! Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy & Linus, and the rest of the gang are all together in this volume that is sure to please young and old alike. This collection brings the gang together in a series of heartwarming and hilarious stories.
Join the Flying Ace, Linus, Pig-Pen, Schroeder, Sally, Marcie, Franklin, Peppermint Patty, Rerun, and more of your favorite characters in this curated medley of humorous stories that takes readers from the pitcher's mound to the tip-top of Snoopy's doghouse.The Peanuts gang returns to comic books for the first time since the 1960s! Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy & Linus, and the rest of the gang are all together in this volume that is sure to please young and old alike. This collection brings the gang together in a series of heartwarming and hilarious stories.
105 pages, ebook
First published March 11, 2014
About the author
Charles M. Schulz
3,036 books1,666 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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Displaying 1 - 16 of 16 reviews
August 22, 2017
Pitch perfect, even the non-Schulz stories.
December 7, 2015
I finally understand why some of the new stories seem to have Schulz' voice down perfectly - they're actually amalgamations of daily strips tied together to tell one cohesive story rather than be spread across a week or two. The first story in this collection, a Snoopy Vs the Red Baron collection, illustrates this well, and actually works in the formatting. The rest of the stories appear to be classic strips or fully original (the Peanuts gang at a bowling alley was interesting, and did a good job of capturing the characters). It was nice to see some of the lesser Peanuts characters make more of an appearance here (Pigpen, and Rerun, for two examples), and overall this again carries on the quality of the rebooted series.
November 7, 2019
I liked this one a lot especially the last one which perfectly ends the volume: “Who needs other dogs when you got family?” Snoopy when he was feeling alone and unwanted. Poor Charlie Brown. Just when he was confident enough to bowl, he accidentally broke the bowling trophy. And there are some days when I want to slap Peppermint Patty in the face for insulting Charlie Brown and then yelling at him again after apologizing to him for insulting him. Ready for the next volume!
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August 21, 2019
Very cute, love the art
January 28, 2020
This was so adorable and hilarious! I laughed out loud at many different parts. Essential for anyone who loves Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang.
March 24, 2020
Friendship in peanuts!
Laughed out aloud with the gang’s silliness. Showed how their friendship is genuine, with faults and all they stay true to each other!
Laughed out aloud with the gang’s silliness. Showed how their friendship is genuine, with faults and all they stay true to each other!
January 13, 2021
Theses comics just never disappoints.
April 18, 2022
Comforting and a little lonely and melancholic, which is not a bad thing.
July 15, 2022
Snoopy and the rest of the peanuts gang never fail to make my laugh!
Loved the books years ago and now I'm reading about the gang again.
Brilliant!
Loved the books years ago and now I'm reading about the gang again.
Brilliant!
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January 23, 2025The Peanuts comics always have the best life advice lol 🤭
December 14, 2014
Not as good as the original strips. Since when does
Peppermint Patty have a last name ?
Peppermint Patty have a last name ?
September 28, 2015
Classic Peanuts - I enjoyed the original cover artwork in the back
March 1, 2016
Great peanuts. Loved Marcie and Peppermint Patty. And lets not forget one of the best dogs in the world, Snoopy.
June 11, 2016
quick witted, well written.....as good as clever hallmark cards.
November 7, 2020
Delightful read.
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