The Complete Peanuts 1991-1994: Gift Box Set - Hardcover

Schulz, Charles M.

ISBN 10: 1606997742 / ISBN 13: 9781606997741

Published by Fantagraphics, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Peanuts 1991-1994: Gift Box Set - Hardcover
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606997742
• ISBN 13: 9781606997741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

This Peanuts box set collects the years 1991-1994 of one of the world's most popular newspaper comic strips, complete with a slipcase and available at a bargain price.

The Complete Peanuts: 1991-1994 is the 21st and 22nd volume (of 25) of the perennial, best-selling series that collects every single one of the 18,000-plus Peanuts newspaper comic strips created by Charles M. Schulz, from its debut in 1950 to its end in 2000. In Vol. 21, the series enters its final decade. This material is perhaps the most overlooked of Schulz’s career. In Vol. 22, Charlie Brown hits a home run and Linus tries to get Snoopy a Supreme Court seat. Black and white

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). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. 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 and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in Li'l Folks. They bought the strip, renaming it Peanuts, a title Schulz always loathed. 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.