Peanuts every Sunday, 1952-1955 / by Charles M. Schulz ; [editor, Gary Groth ; foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum].

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Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always beencollected and reprinted in black and white, and generations of Peanuts fans havegrown up enjoying this iteration of these strips. But many who read Peanuts intheir original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makesfor a surprisingly different reading experience. It is for these fans (and forPeanuts fans in general who want to experience this alternate/original version)that we now present a series of larger, Sundays-only Peanuts reprints. As withmost strips, Peanuts showed by far the quickest and richest development in itsfirst decade, and Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955, by compiling every strip fromthe first four years, offers a fascinating peek at Schulz's evolving creativeprocess. Not only does the graphic side of the strips change drastically, fromthe strip's initial stiff, ultra-simple stylizations through a period ofuncommonly lush, detailed drawings to something close to the final, elegantPeanuts style we've all come to know and love, but several main characters aregradually introduced oddly enough, usually as infants who would then grow up tofull, articulate Peanut-hood! and then refined: Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus.