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Loading... The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 (Vol. 2) (The Complete Peanuts) (edition 2004)by Charles M. Schulz, Gary Groth (Editor), Walter Cronkite (Introduction), Seth (Designer)
Work InformationThe Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 Dailies & Sundays by Charles M. Schulz
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The one where Linus gets his blanket. ( ) A collection of the early years years of Charles Schulz's comic strip, Peanuts. This is such a great series and is such a huge part of Americana that it feels almost necessary to take a look at its beginnings. And the beginnings are good; the characters aren't exactly what they are today, but it is already evident how they may develop to be the characters in the guise we now know and love. Peanuts is obviously on its way to becoming a great strip, an iconic strip, but after reading 5 years' worth in a big gulp, it really does get repetitive. The characters are more caricatures than characters--there's no emotional depth to them, really, but just rough shapes. Charlie Brown has a big ego and yet is insecure; Lucy is a fussbudget; Violet makes mud pies. It's a lot of the same, rephrased and recycled. Thank god Charlotte Braun didn't last, though. no reviews | add a review
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The second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, the recently-born Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen and his dust cloud join the crowd. Linus, who still doesn't speak, begins to emerge as one of the most complex and endearing characters in the strip: garrulous and inquisitive yet gentle and tolerant. And, in this volume, he acquires his security blanket! Charlie Brown is becoming his best-known self, the lovable, perpetually-humiliated round-headed loser, but he hasn't yet abandoned his brasher, prankish behavior from Volume One. And, Lucy, this book's cover girl, has grown up and forcefully elbowed her way to the center of the action, proudly wearing her banner as a troublemaker, or, in Schulz's memorable phrase, a "fussbudget". No library descriptions found. |
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