"The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip masterpiece"--Jacket.
"The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip masterpiece"--Jacket.
In The Complete Peanuts: 1995-1996 (Vol. 23), Charlie Brown starts taking dancing classes ...and is asked to the sweetheart ball! The World Famous Attorney handles some tough cases ...Rerun wants Snoopy to come out and play ...and Linus hears coyotes howling at night. Even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised when they revisit Schulza (TM)s last decade of work on the most beloved comic strip of all time. Schulza (TM)s cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humor never more unencumbered by formula or tradition.
“"More and more, it became difficult to predict the strip on a daily basis. It frequently got weird..."”
The lines may be a little shaky at times, but the writing and humor are still sharp and hilarious, and the drawing remains a case study in casual simplicity that is much harder than it looks. ...[T]here's hardly a page in this book that didn't make me laugh or at least smile. What a remarkable achievement. Highly recommended.--Todd Klein (Eisner Award-winning letterer and designer) More and more, it became difficult to predict the strip on a daily basis. It frequently got weird...--Rob Clough
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
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