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Peanuts Titan Comics Editions #2
More Peanuts
This collection contains 240 Peanuts strips taken from the three year span of 1952-1954 featuring many of your favourite characters.
The strip’s bitter-sweet humour and child-like innocence helped to cement the Peanuts comic strip’s popularity and secure its reputation as a true, one-of-a-kind, timeless classic.
The strip’s bitter-sweet humour and child-like innocence helped to cement the Peanuts comic strip’s popularity and secure its reputation as a true, one-of-a-kind, timeless classic.
124 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1954
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Charles M. Schulz
3,028 books1,638 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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August 18, 2020
I read in English but this review is in Bahasa Indonesia
Setelah puas dengan Peanuts, aku mencoba membaca kelanjutannya. Kebetulan, volume kedua ini juga tersedia di Big Bad Wolf Indonesia periode Agustus 2020 sehingga (tentu saja) aku bisa mendapatkannya dengan harga yang cukup miring.
Membaca More Peanuts sebenarnya tidak jauh berbeda dengan ketika membaca Peanuts. Anak-anak kecil itu mencoba untuk menyindir kehidupan manusia dewasa lewat gelagatnya yang menggemaskan. Bahkan beberapa sempat membuatku tergelak tertawa karena kok apa yang mereka perbincangkan masih relevan dengan masa sekarang.
Setelah puas dengan Peanuts, aku mencoba membaca kelanjutannya. Kebetulan, volume kedua ini juga tersedia di Big Bad Wolf Indonesia periode Agustus 2020 sehingga (tentu saja) aku bisa mendapatkannya dengan harga yang cukup miring.
Membaca More Peanuts sebenarnya tidak jauh berbeda dengan ketika membaca Peanuts. Anak-anak kecil itu mencoba untuk menyindir kehidupan manusia dewasa lewat gelagatnya yang menggemaskan. Bahkan beberapa sempat membuatku tergelak tertawa karena kok apa yang mereka perbincangkan masih relevan dengan masa sekarang.
October 22, 2024
I love the humour in Peanuts books. I also used them to encourage my children when toddlers to learn to read.
December 26, 2024
Baby Linus :’)
June 23, 2024
my grandma rocks(!!) again!
first vol. was definitely more of a hoot
first vol. was definitely more of a hoot
June 9, 2023
„-When I grow up I want to be a nurse…
-That’s fine.
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
-PERFECT.”
-That’s fine.
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
-PERFECT.”
May 4, 2017
This very early collection--Linus starts as a baby and takes his first steps midway through the book--was delightful. Lucy, years before her football pulling or Doctor-is-In days, battles boredom at and expulsion from nursery school. Charlie Brown is still an only child, and his issues with depression are emerging at full force even at 3 years old. Violet is heavily featured--sometimes in love with other times maliciously cruel to Charlie Brown--and hard to like! Schroeder wins as always and philosophizes about life while perseverating about Beethoven. There is a trope of a strip featured in this book that was lost in later years. I loved seeing it in this collection: various members of the crew would walk by a fence that others doodled/wrote on/tagged, and that lone character would react in some way to the writing on the fence. Those strips were some of my favorites... (now) all time favorites. Snoopy is wonderful as expected. I must admit, however, this is one of several older collections I've read of late, and I cannot wait to see when and how Woodstock arrives because I MISS that little bird!
May 6, 2020
After reading The Complete Peanuts 1950-52 it was fun to read a book of strips that sort of continues where the other leaves off (not having access to the next actual volume of Complete Peanuts at this time). It was interesting seeing the characters continue to develop. Charlie Brown becoming more of the wishy washy depressed figure (although he still retains a little more feistiness) , Lucy becoming more of the obnoxious fussbudget & Linus beginning to take his first steps. Violet also begins to become the rather detestable snobbish meangirl that she would be for the remainder of her time in the strip. She does get her comeuppance in one strip though where she's being particularly bossy and unbearable in the sandbox and Charlie Brown retaliates by dumping an entire bucket of sand on her. The book was an enjoyable look at early Peanuts and the joy that is always this strip. My only quibble is that the strips are not presented in order and it's rather easy to notice as strips featuring the earlier artwork will follow strips featuring the characters looking closer to the way they look today.
August 14, 2018
Of course, very very good. It was my first time reading several (in fact, A LOT) of peanuts cartoons in a row. Now, I have a much better sense of the characters and in-jokes, which are far more intricate than I thought they would be.
One of the great things that I admire about this cartoons is how Charlie Brown doesn't take things personally. A girl won't invite him to her party, and he will say, "Yeah if you think I'm annoying, you definitely shouldn't invite me to your party. That would be a real bummer for you." Certainly we can all learn from Charlie Brown.
That being said, he does turn around and take other things personally so maybe he's not perfect. There are plenty of inconsistencies -- such as that one -- but I know it's just a cartoon that was created over a long span of time.
I'm excited to be directing a musical based on these comics in the fall!
One of the great things that I admire about this cartoons is how Charlie Brown doesn't take things personally. A girl won't invite him to her party, and he will say, "Yeah if you think I'm annoying, you definitely shouldn't invite me to your party. That would be a real bummer for you." Certainly we can all learn from Charlie Brown.
That being said, he does turn around and take other things personally so maybe he's not perfect. There are plenty of inconsistencies -- such as that one -- but I know it's just a cartoon that was created over a long span of time.
I'm excited to be directing a musical based on these comics in the fall!
May 23, 2020
I liked this book because it had humor and comedy and it made me laughed at my age. The book is wonderful and would recommend it to others if i could. Each strip contains something different while connecting to other strips.I would sometimes mistake this book for a comic book because of my young age.I would read this book as many times as i could because i find it amusing and funny. E.g in one strip Lucy asks Charlie Brown what he is going to get for her birthday and Charlie Brown thinks that she wouldn't guess it in a million years, she guesses jumping rope and his face goes blank. One of the best comedy comic books/strips i have read.
October 5, 2021
This is perfect for any one who still looks to their childhood memories for some very light relaxation. When things are getting too hectic or wearisome, I grab a childhood book. S when I found this classic at a book sale, I grabbed it. It is helping me through these days when my mother's illness gets a bit much for me. Oh the wisdom of Charles Schultz shines through each of these short pages. Although the comics are in black and white, the Peanuts gang and their antics color the book enough for a short read between doctors appointments.
February 25, 2020
Classic Peanuts.
May 14, 2020
Being a Peanuts fan, I love this timeless classic. Entertaining and relaxed read.
April 28, 2021
It's pretty funny. These strips focus more on the people rather than Snoopy. Each one of them has their quirks. It's missing a star because not everything in the collection is funny.
October 25, 2025
It's cute and it's not the peanuts I remembered as a kid so it's interesting to see how the characters developed and changed over time.
February 4, 2015
I find a freshness and charm in these early Peanuts books, which is missing from the more analytical grown-up characters. Every time I read a strip where Schroeder is playing Beethoven on his 'toy' piano, I'm touched by that joy of and in imagination. To a child everything is possible until proven otherwise; a valuable trait of creative thinking that too many sadly, and to their detriment, lose when they grow up into adulthood.
May 6, 2011
It's Peanuts. Who doesn't like Peanuts?
September 14, 2015
Great stuff. I love that Titan is publishing these facsimile editions.
November 1, 2015
It is kind of scary (and definitely not funny) how depressed Charlie Brown was early on. He doesn't seem to be as much in the movies.
July 31, 2016
I love the timelessness of these comic strips: written in the 1950s, but for the most part still relevant today. And who doesn't love a little Beethoven humour? (Schroeder's the best!)
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