The Complete Peanuts, 1950 to 1952

This is the first volume in a 12-year project to reprint the entire run of the PEANUTS comic strip in chronological order. Charles M. Schultz's legions of fans will find much of interest here, and will enjoy tracing the history of this decades-long strip. For example, this book features the very first instances of one of the strip's most classic and oft-repeated bits: Lucy yanking away the football from Charlie Brown. The kids are younger here; Linus and Schroeder can't even talk yet. The black-and-white drawings are simpler in these early years. The character depictions are subtly different--e.g. the heads have a sideways oval shape, rather than the rounder ones from later years, and Snoopy more closely resembles a real beagle--but is still clearly recognizable. This volume features a foreword by Garrison Keillor, as well as a short bio and an interview with the late Schultz. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.