The Complete Peanuts Box Set Volumes 5 & 6: 1959-1962: Gift Box Set - Hardcover: 0 - Hardcover

Schulz, Charles M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560977744 ISBN 13: 9781560977742

Verlag: Fantagraphics Books, 2014

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A deluxe boxed set of the fifth and sixth volumes--1959-1960 and 1961-1962--of a twenty-five-volume set contains nearly 1,500 daily and Sunday comics and is packed in a sturdy custom box designed especially for this set and makes the perfect gift for any Peanuts fan.

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Reseña del editor:

Schulz introduces Frieda, she of naturally curly hair. Sally starts kindergarten; Linus gets glasses; Snoopy makes some unlikely friends. Plus baseball blowouts, Beethoven birthdays and dubious psychiatric help for a nickel.

Biografía del autor:

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 Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post--as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. 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. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts--and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate.) 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.

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• Verlag: Fantagraphics Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1560977744
• ISBN 13: 9781560977742
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688