The complete Peanuts. [Volume 2], 1953 to 1954 / Charles M. Schulz ; [introduction by Walter Cronkite].
Material type:
TextPublication details: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, ©2004.Description: xiii, 325 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 x 22 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1560976144
- 9781560976141
- Complete Peanuts. Volume Two
- Complete Peanuts. Vol. 2
- Complete Peanuts. 1953 to 1954
- Peanuts. Selections
- Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Van Pelt, Lucy (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Van Pelt, Linus (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Snoopy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Woodstock (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Children -- Fiction -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Dogs -- Comic books, strips, etc
- American wit and humor, Pictorial -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Wit and humor, Pictorial
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Graphic Novel | PEANUTS | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 33111011283393 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, the recently-born Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen and his dust cloud join the crowd. Linus, who still doesn't speak, begins to emerge as one of the most complex and endearing characters in the strip: garrulous and inquisitive yet gentle and tolerant. And, in this volume, he acquires his security blanket! Charlie Brown is becoming his best-known self, the lovable, perpetually-humiliated round-headed loser, but he hasn't yet abandoned his brasher, prankish behavior from Volume One. And, Lucy, this book's cover girl, has grown up and forcefully elbowed her way to the center of the action, proudly wearing her banner as a troublemaker, or, in Schulz's memorable phrase, a "fussbudget". For readers unfamiliar with the early years of the strip, Snoopy's appearances here may come as the biggest surprise: he behaves, for the most part, like a dog! But, although he doesn't yet walk upright, sleep on top of his doghouse, or possess a fantasy life, Snoopy has started thinking for himself and his evolution continues its fascinating course within these pages. If you watch carefully, you'll catch his very first shark impression. The vast majority of the daily and Sunday strips collected here are not currently available in any in-print Peanuts collection. Dozens of them have not been reprinted since their initial appearance in newspapers over 50 years ago.
2005 Eisner Award Winner, Best Archival Collection/Project; 2005 Eisner Award Winner, Best Publication Design (Seth).
Includes index.
Reprints the complete "Peanuts" daily and Sunday comic strips from 1953 to 1954, following the antics of Charlie Brown and his friends through their fourth year in publication.
"The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip masterpiece"--Jacket.
"Dailies and Sundays"--Jacket.
Introduction by Walter Cronkite.
Edited by Gary Groth.
"In addition to introducing the beloved character Pig-Pen, The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 shows many of the cast of characters beginning to take on their best-known personality traits -- from Linus's philosophical thoughtfulness to Lucy's fussiness, as well as Snoopy's emerging eccentricity. THis volume also features an essay on Schulz by the legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite, a biography of Schulz, and the popular index to characters, objects and themes!"--Book jacket.