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...half of the works. The contributors are a jaw-dropping list: every single major North American cartoonist of the last two decades, plus several key historical artists, some newcomers and even a few prose pieces by the likes of John Updike, Chip Kidd ("Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz") and Glen David Gold ("Carter Beats the Devil"). The works have been loosely organized by genre. Early in the book appears what may be considered the world's first comic strip: Rodolphe Topffer's 1839 "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck," about a despondent bachelor who perpetually fails at both love...
Little anomalies like that are among the many pleasures of The Complete Peanuts (Fantagraphics; 343 pages), the initial volume of an extraordinary publishing project that over the next 12 years will reprint the entire run--50 years and 18,170 strips--of Charles Schulz's towering comic-strip masterpiece. The Complete Peanuts will eventually take up 25 gorgeous hardcover books and include hundreds of strips that haven't been seen since the day they appeared in newsprint. The first volume (1950-52) confronts us afresh with what a brilliant, truly modern and totally weird idea it was to create...
...name Peanuts was foisted on Schulz by an editor who had never seen the strip, and Schulz always hated it. ("It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity," he fumes in a frank, funny 1987 interview reprinted in the book.) He wasn't wild about The Complete Peanuts either. He thought his early work was crude, and he didn't especially want to see it reprinted. But his wife Jean disagreed, and after his death in 2000 she worked with an editor at Fantagraphics to pull the collection together. "Unlike Sparky, the rest...
...course, Schulz was right too. The early comics are crude, but that's what makes them fascinating. Back then, Lucy is still a toddler, as are Schroeder and Linus, and Snoopy is a puppy. Charlie Brown's best friend is named Shermy, and they spend most of their time with a blond named Patty (not Peppermint) and cruel Violet, a winsome brunet who gets a lot of semifunny gags involving mud pies. Charlie Brown is more into golf than baseball, and he says, "Great Scott!", not "Good Grief!" His personality is different too. He's more of a mischievous prankster...
...While they’re in harmony, there’s always a potential conflict,” Schulz said. “Harvard has an interest in keeping its donors happy, but certainly...their major interest is with their long-term endowment...