Book : The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 - Charles M. Schulz

-Titulo Original : The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968

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Fantagraphics

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As we rush toward the end of Peanuts second decade, Snoopy looms large, Peppermint Patty ascends toward future stardom, Lucy antagonizes everyone and Charlie Brown is... Charlie Brown. Snoopy finds himself almost completely engrossed in his persona as the World War I Flying Ace to the point where he goes to camp with Charlie Brown and maintains his persona throughout the entire two-week period (much to Peppermint Pattys bafflement). Still, Snoopy looms large, so this volume (a particularly Snoopy-heavy one) sees him arm-wrestling Lucy as the Masked Marvel and then taking off for Petaluma for the national arm-wrestling championship; impersonating a vulture and a Cheshire Beagle; enjoying golf and hockey; attempting a jaunt to France for an ice-skating championship; running for office on the Paw ticket; being traded to Peppermint Pattys baseball team, then un-traded and installed as team manager by a guilt-ridden Charlie Brown; as well as dealing with the return of his original owner, Lila. If youre surprised by that last one, imagine how Charlie Brown feels... Lila makes only a brief appearance (as does Jose Peterson, a short-lived and short star member of Charlie Browns baseball team), but this volume sees the appearance of what would be Schulzs most controversial major character: Franklin. (Yes, in 1968 the introduction of a black character caused a stir.) Peppermint Patty, working toward her ascendancy as one of the major Peanuts players in the 1970s and 1980s, also has several major turns, including a storyline in which she’s the tent monitor for three little girls (who call her Sir a joke Schulz would pick up later with Peppermint Pattys friend Marcie). Stories involving other characters include a sequence in which Linuss flippant comment to his Gramma that hell kick his blanket habit when she kicks her smoking habit backfires; Lucy bullies Linus, pesters Schroeder, and organizes a crab-in; plus Charlie Brown copes with Valentines Day depression, the Little Red-Haired Girl, the increasingly malevolent kite-eating tree, and baseball losses. In other words: Vintage Peanuts! All this, plus an introduction by beloved transgressive filmmaker John Waters and award-winning design by Seth. 730 black-and-white comic strips From Booklist During 1967-68, Snoopy accelerated his transition from simple family pet to World War I fighting ace (and secret agent, and figure skater, and golf pro). Schulz made a few stabs at contemporary relevance by introducing minority kids Franklin and Jose Peterson, destined respectively to remain a minor character and to disappear altogether, and a “hippie bird” that appears to be a proto-Woodstock. Most of these four-decade-old strips center on such comfortably timeless and familiar devices as Charlie Brown’s haplessness on the baseball diamond, his unrequited love for the Little Red-Haired Girl, and the kite-eating tree. --Gordon Flagg 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 Lil 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 Lil 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 wit