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Snoopy Stars / Snoopy Features #3
Snoopy Features as The Winter Wonder Dog
From holiday cheer to hockey and skiing, winter brings out the best in everyone's favorite beagle.
Double axels, acrobatic jumps, and flying spins: Watch out winter--here comes Snoopy the Winter Wonder Dog!
This is a collection of original Peanuts comic strips featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the whole gang.
Originally published as Snoopy Stars as The Terror of the Ice, it was later rereleased as Snoopy Features as The Winter Wonder Dog.
Double axels, acrobatic jumps, and flying spins: Watch out winter--here comes Snoopy the Winter Wonder Dog!
This is a collection of original Peanuts comic strips featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the whole gang.
Originally published as Snoopy Stars as The Terror of the Ice, it was later rereleased as Snoopy Features as The Winter Wonder Dog.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Charles M. Schulz
3,025 books1,623 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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January 12, 2018
Another themed collection. This one deals with winter and winter sports. I'm in Michigan, The Winter Wonderland and home of Hockey town. So a collection of hockey, ice skating, skiing, snowball fights, snowman building and snow related strips was my cup of hot chocolate on a cold autumn night or two.
June 17, 2018
So gorgeous 😍
December 27, 2017
Sometimes it's just fun to read...
December 28, 2017
In this collection of Peanuts comics, we follow Snoopy around in his winter escapades into Ice Skating, the Winter Olympics and Hockey!
This comics is ok, it only has 1 comic per page so it’s not as jam packed as some comic collections can be (who usually get 3 comics per page).
But you just can’t beat Snoopy. It does unfortunately have DRM, so -1.
This comics is ok, it only has 1 comic per page so it’s not as jam packed as some comic collections can be (who usually get 3 comics per page).
But you just can’t beat Snoopy. It does unfortunately have DRM, so -1.
May 31, 2020
I needed a dose of Snoopy.
January 1, 2022
It was ok.
Some parts were funny, some parts were redundant. Needed a forwards if afterwards to tie it together.
Some parts were funny, some parts were redundant. Needed a forwards if afterwards to tie it together.
March 10, 2017
Still "the world famous dog."
Snoopy has been a favorite character since I was a child. He brings back memories of simpler time. I was tempted to give this book five stars, but some of the comics are too much the same. Still a fun read and enjoyable for all.
Snoopy has been a favorite character since I was a child. He brings back memories of simpler time. I was tempted to give this book five stars, but some of the comics are too much the same. Still a fun read and enjoyable for all.
August 8, 2013
A themed collection of cartoons (pulled from various points of the 70s and 80s), these are all focussed (as the title would suggest) around winter. Predominantly featuring Snoopy (which is always a plus), it also has input from Lucy & Linus, Peppermint Patty & Marcie and good ol’ melancholic Charlie Brown himself. Highlights for me included a snowed over Snoopy on his kennel having Woodstock build a Christmas tree on him, Snoopy skating (and pondering entry to the Olympics, when he’s not chasing girls), Woodstock hunting polar bears, Snoopy taking a group of birds hiking, Charlie Brown trying to rescue Harriet the bird in the woods and getting lost himself (only to be found by Snoopy) and ‘Joe Awning’. Funny (the stand-outs being Snoopy’s ears after wearing a stocking cap and the way he walks after looking at an askew snowman), with some pathos (Charlie Brown hoping he can continue the Christmas feeling) and camaraderie, this is a delightful read and very much recommended.
September 7, 2013
I love snoopy!
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