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The Peanuts gang is back! Featuring a cover drawn by Charles Schulz himself, this book brings you a mix of classic Peanuts Sundays and all-new strips seen here for the first time. From long-time fans to first-time young readers, everyone will find something to love about Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus, Lucy, Pigpen, Schroeder, and, of course, good ol' Charlie Brown!.Tags
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What a wonderful book! A memoir really to Charles M. Schulz and his masterpiece (the Peanuts gang). It's really interesting to finally found out how it all began, how characters / personalities developed or are dropped, & all his successess were earned. The peanuts gang have real qualities to them (in terms on personalities) and whilst I can relate to them, it also makes you realise how cruel children really are! Though now that I'm all grown up, reading Peanuts just makes me laugh (I've got no kids yet). Charles M. Schulz writes & illustrates wonderful stories... just remember: Happiness is a warm puppy (I can sooo relate to that!)
Peanuts taught me to read; Charles Schulz used grown-up words like "claustrophobia" and "alumni"! A marvelous retrospective.
One of the finest works on Charles Schultz and his Peanuts gang. Exquisite production, photography and printing.
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Chip Kidd has designed book jackets for Alfred A. Knopf for over a decade. His work has been featured in "Vanity Fair", "Print", "Entertainment Weekly", "The New Republic", "Time", "The New York Times", "Graphis", "New York", and "ID" magazine. He lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) Chip Kidd was born in 1964. He is an author, editor and show more graphic designer. He has become known for his book covers. He is the associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House. He first joined the Knopf design team in 1986, when he was hired as a junior assistant. Turning out jacket designs at an average of 75 a year. Kidd also supervises graphic novels at Pantheon, and in 2003 he collaborated with Art Spiegelman on a biography of cartoonist Jack Cole, Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits. His design for Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel was carried over into marketing for the film adaptation. Oliver Sacks and other authors have contract clauses stating that Kidd design their books. Publishers Weekly described his book jackets as "creepy, striking, sly, smart, unpredictable covers that make readers appreciate books as objects of art as well as literature." USA Today also called him "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today, while author James Ellroy has called him the world's greatest book-jacket designer. Kidd is as a fan of comic book media, particularly Batman, and has written and designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, and Jack Cole and Plastic Man. He also designed Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross and wrote an exclusive Batman/Superman story illustrated by Ross for the book. In 2014 his title, Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Charles M. Schulz; Charlie Brown; Snoopy
- First words
- Sparky was a genius.
- Quotations
- "Goodbye always makes my throat hurt...I need more hellos..." Charlie Brown, 1967
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In fact, I'll see you in the morning!
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
- LCC
- PN6728 .P4 .S3262 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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- 600
- Popularity
- 48,614
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (4.44)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 4
