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The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz
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The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952

by Charles M. Schulz

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The smaller scale and smooth lines of the early strips always appealed to memore than the later years. Here the "Li'l Folks" actually looked like conflicted and cynical children before they grew into the conflicted and cynical icons of the funny pages. Comic comfort food.
-- Eric
BaileyCoy | Jun 30, 2007 |  
"Peanuts" was the first comic strip I really loved, and I remember collecting all the book compilations in my early teens. Those books are gone now, but Fantagraphics Books has embarked upon an ambitious and overdue project of reprinting the complete series (about 50 years worth). Actually, this first couple of years begins inauspiciously; the artwork is pretty simplistic and stilted, and a lot of the gags are pretty thin or obvious. Still, there was the occasional flash of genius. Introduced in this volume are Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Snoopy (these four were the only players during the first several months), Violet, Schroeder (first piano playing pg. 103), Lucy and Linus. Includes a Schulz biography, interview, and a quite useful index. A nostalgic and pleasurable collection of what would later become a great strip, and the world's most popular. ( )
burnit99 | Feb 18, 2007 |  
How does one review a bunch of comics? I mean, sure, an individual comic strip can strike home with a serious, profound thought, or even get one's mind speculating on deep issues. But it's rare for a comic strip to delve into any prolonged analysis of an issue. Each day's strip needs to deliver its standalone message in the limited number of panels it's given. So my review of the content of The Complete Peanuts--a complete collection of Charles Schulz's iconic strip--is simple: it's funny. However, there's more to this book than just the strips. For one thing, this series is created for the hard core fan of Peanuts. The book has an index, for crying out loud! Only a true comics geek needs one of those. Also, the Peanuts of 1950-1952 is a far cry from the icons we know today. Snoopy behaves like a dog, Charlie Brown is a wise-cracking trickster and Linus' blanket is nowhere to be seen. There are a few beloved concepts that show up in this collection, but for the most part it's completely different from what's running in the newspapers today. But hey, like I said, it's funny. I'm looking forward to reading future volumes to see the strip evolve and enjoy a slice of Americana from before my time. I probably wouldn't have bought the book for myself, but my wife is a fan, so it's going on my shelf.
--J. ( )
Hamburgerclan | Sep 9, 2006 |  
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Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!
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Amazon.com (ISBN 156097589X, Hardcover)

Good grief! The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 launches the most ambitious and most important project in the comics and cartooning genre: over a period of 12 years, Fantagraphics Books will release every daily and Sunday strip of Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts," the best-known and best-loved series in the world. Most everyone with an interest in its history has seen the very first strip ("Good ol' Charlie Brown... How I hate him!"), but this first volume follows it up with 287 pages (three daily strips or one Sunday per page) of vintage material in chronological order. "Peanuts" was unique at the time for portraying kids who seemed like real kids, but they also had a wisdom beyond their years, embodied especially by the lovable loser, Charlie Brown, who even in these early years has lost 4000 checker games in a row. We see him don his familiar jagged-stripe shirt for the first time (December 1950) and, at the age of 4, at his peak as a babe magnet. Shermy is the other significant boy, and the girls in their lives are Patty (not to be confused with Peppermint Patty) and Violet. Schroeder is an infant who has learned to sit up in order to play Beethoven on his toy piano. Snoopy is an anthropomorphic dog who plays baseball (April 1952) and has his own thoughts (October 1952). In March 1952 we meet a bug-eyed Lucy, who by November has been designated "Miss Fuss-Budget of 1952" and is pulling the football away from Charlie Brown (Violet had done it a year earlier). Her baby brother Linus arrives in July 1952. The book itself is beautifully packaged, the strips printed large and clear on high-quality paper and accompanied by an in-depth essay by David Michaelis, a 1987 interview with Schulz, an introduction by Garrison Keillor, and even an index of characters and subjects. It's so well-done that any reader will be impatient for the rest of the series, but in the meantime this is a book to savor. --David Horiuchi

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