The Complete Peanuts Volume 11: 1971-1972 (COMPLETE PEANUTS HC) - Hardcover

Schulz, Charles M; Chenoweth, Kristin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606991450 ISBN 13: 9781606991459

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2015

Synopsis

Peanuts surges into the 1970s with Schulz at the peak of his powers and influence. Sally Brown - school phobia, malapropisms, unrequited love for Linus and all - elbows her way to center stage, at least among the humans, and is thus the logical choice for cover girl... and in her honor, the introduction is provided by none other than television, Broadway and film star Kristin (Pushing Daisies, Wicked) Chenoweth, who first rose to Tony-winning fame with her scene-stealing performance as Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Speaking of introductions, Peppermint Patty's new permanent sidekick, the one and only Marcie, makes her debut, and then there's the birth of one Rerun Van Pelt! Also, Snoopy as Joe Cool, Woodstock in worm school, and much more!

About this title

About the Author

Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google).

In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course, and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post―as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit.

He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts―and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate.) The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952.

Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day―and the day before his last strip was published―having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand―an unmatched achievement in comics.

From Booklist

Snoopy continues to dominate the proceedings in these 1971–72 installments of the classic strip as he bonds with new friend Woodstock, appears for the first time in the guise of Joe Cool, serves as Peppermint Patty’s attorney when she violates the school dress code, and has Linus’ security blanket made into a sports coat. Also, Lucy and Linus welcome the arrival of baby brother Rerun. Actress Kristin Chenoweth contributes an introduction, in which she discusses her Tony-winning portrayal of Charlie Brown’s little sister Sally in the 1998 Broadway revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. --Gordon Flagg

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1606991450
• ISBN 13: 9781606991459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344