LIFE Peanuts: The World's Greatest Comic Strip

by Kostya Kennedy (Editor)

96 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2021

About the author

KOSTYA KENNEDY is the Editor in Chief of Premium Publishing at Dotdash Meredith. A former Senior Writer and Editor at Sports Illustrated, he is the author of the forthcoming book The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America as well as True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, the New York Times bestsellers 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, and Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. All three books won the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. He has taught at Columbia and New York University, and he lives in Westchester County, New York.

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent view of the life and times of Charles Schultz and the Peanuts comic strip, which he hand drew and lettered himself from its beginning until his retirement. Even before Peanuts Charles Schultz was the man behind "Just keep Laughing" and "Li'l Folks by Sparky" which was later renamed Peanuts with its first published comic strip in 1950. Since then, the Peanuts gang has touched each and every one of us, whether you relate to Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, Schroeder, Pig Pen or even the greatest one in my opinion Snoopy who was inspired by Schultz’s own dog Spike, you will not be disappointed with this book. "LIFE Peanuts The World's Greatest Comic Strip" gives us a look at the making of, the influences for, and the history behind Peanuts. Charles Schultz and the legacy he has left behind with his greatest creation lives on, and this short book answers many questions and tells us things we never realized about the inspirations behind this Classic.

[Mark Braun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice analysis of the comic strip. Wish it had more of the strip in it.

[Patricia Stinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Each character of the Peanuts family was written about and included Charles Schulz's thoughts on his work.