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Sunday's Fun Day, Charlie Brown
Sunday's Fun Day, Charlie Brown contains some truly charming adventures for the Peanuts gang. In one enlightening strip Linus tries his hand at becoming an author; in another we get to witness the birth of the skateboarding craze. And the whole gang gets to enjoy the excitement of the first snowfall and the great anticipation of preparing for Christmas. These strips are from 1962 through 1965.
128 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1965
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Charles M. Schulz
3,037 books1,634 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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February 11, 2024
I was a very lucky kid back in the day because my parents allowed me spend all my cash on almost the entire catalog of Peanuts paperbacks and digests in print back then. I had a two long shelves packed with Peanuts. Unfortunately I don’t know where they all are today, but when I saw “Sunday’s Fun Day, Charlie Brown” pop up on hoopla, I was so excited as I remember this volume as one of my very favorites. With classic lines such as “Just what I need…a handful of chicken pox,” “My ophthalmologist told me there’d be days like this,” and “Well…what do you know…Joe Shlabotnick!,” it’s as funny as I remember.
June 22, 2023
Great book
February 12, 2022
Some wonderful strips in here, some of my favourites.
June 1, 2023
5/5 🥜
October 6, 2025
I’m currently in a Peanuts phase and I am in love! 😍
May 16, 2010
This Peanuts volume features the 8 frame Sunday comic strips! Thus, each story has more detail than possible during the week, when only 4 frame comics appeared. One typical comic strip. The subject is a baseball game. All 3 outfielders leave the game. Charlie Brown wonders where the three girls are going. One tells Charlie Brown, "We have to attend a tea party, so we can't play in your ol' ball game." Charlie Brown wails: "NOW I DON'T HAVE ANY OUTFIELDERS." He moans and groans a bit and Snoopy leaves. A couple frames later, Charlie Brown says "Oh, good grief." Why? Snoopy is back with three birds wearing gloves--the new outfield replacements!
Standard Peanuts (which is to say a pretty good volume). The 8 frames is nice, since it allows for more developments.
Standard Peanuts (which is to say a pretty good volume). The 8 frames is nice, since it allows for more developments.
January 27, 2015
Snoopy has 'bird tenants' - clearly the prototype Woodstock. Charlie Brown's angst builds as he just cannot seem to write using a pen in the way his teacher wants him to. That's not his only problem, his kite has an affinity for trees. All childhood is here.
July 19, 2024
A small-scale paperback volume collecting Sunday strips (approximately 59% of those published) from 1962-1965. The winnowing results in a strong mix, but Titan Comics have opted for black-and-white facsimiles instead of the colour reproductions that would make this anything but an also-ran.
May 6, 2011
It's Peanuts. Who doesn't like Peanuts?
October 28, 2011
Reading this reminded me of the hours I spent reading Peanuts as a kid.
January 2, 2014
I actually have the Peanuts Classics version, lots of laughs.
August 20, 2021
It is great that Titan Comics decided to reprint these Peanuts books. So much fun to read.
January 19, 2024
Its Peanuts, so of course its GOOD!!! I put aside my other books to read this one. It ended too soon though.
March 9, 2024
A collection of Sunday strips from the early days of Peanuts. Certainly proves the saying "golden oldies". Over a half-century old and still hilarious.
April 25, 2024
A life treat revisited
Love having Peanuts to lift me up at the end of a hard day. Giggle medicine in an e-book, always at my fingertips!
Love having Peanuts to lift me up at the end of a hard day. Giggle medicine in an e-book, always at my fingertips!
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