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Snoopy Stars / Snoopy Features #10
Snoopy Features as The Literary Ace
The famous beagle plugs away at puns, poems, and more in this hilariously literate collection of Peanuts cartoons.
Whether composing the great American novel, the deadliest pun, or a letter to the editor, Snoopy toils away tirelessly on his trusty typewriter. With so much hard work, it can only be a matter of time before he gets published!
Whether composing the great American novel, the deadliest pun, or a letter to the editor, Snoopy toils away tirelessly on his trusty typewriter. With so much hard work, it can only be a matter of time before he gets published!
128 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2000
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Charles M. Schulz
3,036 books1,646 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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June 10, 2022
Loving Snoopy.
In this book, Snoopy is writing a book and he is serious about it. With unasked for advice from Lucy, he is trying to write multiple stories.
Will he write that wanted masterpiece? Will he write a tell-all? A memoir? Autobiography? A side-splitting comedy? Only time will tell.
In this book, Snoopy is writing a book and he is serious about it. With unasked for advice from Lucy, he is trying to write multiple stories.
Will he write that wanted masterpiece? Will he write a tell-all? A memoir? Autobiography? A side-splitting comedy? Only time will tell.
June 2, 2017
Was für eine süße Sammlung an literarischen Snoopy -Geschichten. Immer wieder gerne. 😍
November 3, 2018
Must read for authors
I grew up reading Snoopy; he's part of my DNA. I'm also an author. This book is full of Snoopy and his writing career. Not only do I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good laugh, every author should have this on their shelf.
I grew up reading Snoopy; he's part of my DNA. I'm also an author. This book is full of Snoopy and his writing career. Not only do I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good laugh, every author should have this on their shelf.
January 10, 2025
wish rupi kaur submitted to those publishers
January 30, 2020
Showcases nearly everything I love about Snoopy, not as many depressing strips as Snoopy the Great Philosopher, but this and that one are def my top 2 Snoopys
January 10, 2025
if snoopy’s writing career has no fans i’m dead
September 21, 2022
It was a dark and stormy night...
In this volume, Snoopy teaches us all a very valuable lesson about writing in general. All he REALLY wants to SAY is "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out...." Unfortunately, Everybody, but Everybody, keeps telling him he should be doing something else, some other way. "Valley of the Beagles?" "Beagle Island?" "The Maltese Beagle?" Oh, rats!!! Good grief, Joe Metaphor!!
A great collection!!
In this volume, Snoopy teaches us all a very valuable lesson about writing in general. All he REALLY wants to SAY is "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out...." Unfortunately, Everybody, but Everybody, keeps telling him he should be doing something else, some other way. "Valley of the Beagles?" "Beagle Island?" "The Maltese Beagle?" Oh, rats!!! Good grief, Joe Metaphor!!
A great collection!!
January 10, 2018
In this collection of Snoopy comics, it’s most all about Snoopy writing his stories and getting turned down by publishers, magazines and even his mom. If you’re an author then I’m sure you’re familiar with this rejection, so this might fall under Horror for you instead of Humor.
However I found the comics to be chuckle-worthy and well worth reading.
It does have DRM, so -1.
However I found the comics to be chuckle-worthy and well worth reading.
It does have DRM, so -1.
December 3, 2025
Snoopy is one of my favourite writers and a great inspiration for my own writing. I mean, he gets the worst rejection letters in the business and still he continues to write his stormy night stories, stormy knight stories, biographies, and all sorts of writing. How could a writer not be inspired by that kind of determination? One of my favourite peanuts book.
January 21, 2018
It was a dark and stormy night, and quite fun.
May 10, 2019
An adorable compilation of Peanuts comics centered around Snoopy and his typewriter.
January 10, 2016
Just what you'd expect...
A collection of Peanuts cartoons staring Snoopy as an aspiring "world famous novelist". Just what you'd expect... and, if you love Peanuts, that's enough for 5 stars.
A collection of Peanuts cartoons staring Snoopy as an aspiring "world famous novelist". Just what you'd expect... and, if you love Peanuts, that's enough for 5 stars.
July 5, 2007
a dear friend lent me this book (thanks, indah!). unfortunatelly, i didn't have time to read it all...
November 27, 2012
Some of the funniest cartoons in the Peanuts series.
January 5, 2016
Snoopy te enseña todo lo que necesitás saber sobre el oficio y la dura vida del escritor. Geniales son las tiras xD
August 24, 2016
Snoopy, just being Snoopy. 'Nuff said.
Just brilliant and funny. Typical Snoopy. Easy and quick read. Just proves that it still holds up after all these years.
Just brilliant and funny. Typical Snoopy. Easy and quick read. Just proves that it still holds up after all these years.
September 4, 2025
Read looking for inspiration. Again I wish there had been more
January 2021 — Cute for what it is, worth the read even though it was kind of short.
January 2021 — Cute for what it is, worth the read even though it was kind of short.
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