The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972: Vol. 11 Paperback Edition

Schulz, Charles M.

ISBN 10: 1683962001 / ISBN 13: 9781683962007

Published by Fantagraphics, 2019

About this Item

Signed (inscribed) by authors widow Jean on title page. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Extremely fine/brand new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Seller Inventory # BAY_18_SH_020455

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972: Vol. 11 Paperback Edition
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683962001
• ISBN 13: 9781683962007
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Peanuts newspaper strip 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. Two long summer-camp sequences involve Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty, who has decided that Charlie Brown is madly in love with her, much to his clueless confusion. Snoopy shows up at camp as well, as does Peppermint Patty's new permanent sidekick, the one and only Marcie. The eternally mutable Snoopy mostly shakes off his World War I Flying Ace identity and turns into Joe Cool, college hipster extraordinaire. And in three long sequences he writes a fan letter to his favorite author, Miss Helen Sweetstory, then goes on a journey to meet her, and finally enlists Charlie Brown's help when her latest opus, The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out, falls afoul of censors. Plus, much more! Black & white illustrations throughout.

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.