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Lo mejor de Carlitos y Snoopy
Snoopy y Carlitos. El sabueso de imaginación desbordante y su dueño, un obstinado perdedor, son dos iconos universales del siglo XX. Durante casi cincuenta años, niños y no tan niños siguieron a diario una tira cómica que pronto salió del periódico a los televisores, las camisetas, los estuches, las tazas y todos los útiles imaginables.
Con más de seis décadas a sus espaldas, Carlitos, Snoopy y sus amigos -Linus, el filósofo aferrado a una manta de seguridad; Lucy, la cascarrabias; Sally, perfectamente terca; Schroeder, un virtuoso del piano de juguete- nos siguen mostrando el lado oculto del sueño americano con sus entrañables historias cotidianas.
Con más de seis décadas a sus espaldas, Carlitos, Snoopy y sus amigos -Linus, el filósofo aferrado a una manta de seguridad; Lucy, la cascarrabias; Sally, perfectamente terca; Schroeder, un virtuoso del piano de juguete- nos siguen mostrando el lado oculto del sueño americano con sus entrañables historias cotidianas.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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Charles M. Schulz
3,023 books1,636 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 28, 2013
Simplemente Maravilloso, si se pudiera le pondría 10 estrellas.
Un recopilado de lo mejor de Charlie Brown, Snoopy y su pandilla de amigos desde los años 50's hasta los 90's.
Te hacen reir, reflexionar, comentar, etc.
Muy recomendable.
Gracias a la persona que muy amablemente me regalo este libro.
Un recopilado de lo mejor de Charlie Brown, Snoopy y su pandilla de amigos desde los años 50's hasta los 90's.
Te hacen reir, reflexionar, comentar, etc.
Muy recomendable.
Gracias a la persona que muy amablemente me regalo este libro.
July 24, 2015
No había leído estas historietas antes, pero la verdad me arrancaron más de una risa y me contagiaron mucho buen humor :D ! Genial si venis de un libro pesado o algo y queres desenganchar ;)
March 5, 2022
Encuentro en Snoopy algo mágico y en Carlitos cosas que me gusta recordar que no le pasaron a mi.
December 10, 2024
Este libro es una recopilación de lo mejor desde los 50 hasta los 90. Se puede ver como va mejorando el estilo de dibujo, el enfoque del humor en casa década y cierta nostalgia en cada página, algunas tiras recordaba hacerlas leído, me reí y viaje a un tiempo en donde no tenía las preocupaciones de ahora. ¿Acaso no es para eso la lectura?
Ojalá todos puedan leer un poquito cada día, para sacarles una sonrisa!
Ojalá todos puedan leer un poquito cada día, para sacarles una sonrisa!
June 23, 2013
Estamos sin duda ante una de las tiras de prensa más entrañable, importante e influyente de la historia y no dudo en contarme desde hace algunos días entre la legión de fanáticos que tiene en el mundo entero.
Debo confesar que hace tiempo que obra alguna no me entusiasmaba de esta manera, algo sin duda muy personal pero muy bienvenido obviamente.
Debo confesar que hace tiempo que obra alguna no me entusiasmaba de esta manera, algo sin duda muy personal pero muy bienvenido obviamente.
February 16, 2014
En esta colección de Snoopy y Charlie Brown, el libro se divide por años, desde los 50, con las primeras comicaturas donde Snoopy caminaba en 4 patas, hasta los 80 o 90, cuando se publicaron las últimas entregas, tras la muerte de Charles. Schulz. Un libro de colección para todo aquel que adore a este peculiar personaje.
October 7, 2016
Lo sublime y lo patético de la vida dentro de este maravilloso microcosmos que es el mundo de Peanuts, donde incluso se subentiende una suerte de fecha límite moral para cuando algo tan terrible como la guerra puede ser recordada con honor. Está todo lo clásico de Charlie Brown y Snoopy, todo lo que definió parte importante de mi infancia y la de muchos. Imperdible!!!
April 11, 2016
quizás lo mejor es haberlo leído pensando en el contexto que fue escrito
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