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The Complete Peanuts Series
This comprehensive collection captures over fifty years of an iconic comic strip's evolution. Delve into a world of philosophical musings, everyday joys, and minor heartbreaks experienced by a small group of children and one beagle. The series masterfully explores the complexities of human nature, friendship, and the search for meaning through simple yet profound narratives. It's a timeless work that resonates with readers of all ages for its honesty and wit.
Recommended Reading Order
Peanuts is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Here, Charles Schulz's classic, Peanuts, is reprinted in its entirety for the first time, and presented in full chronological order.
The Complete Peanuts - 1955 to 1956
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
This volume takes us into the mid-1950s as Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final shape, and Charlie Brown becomes - well, even more Charlie Brown-ish.
As the 1950s close down, Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the centre of the most action-packed episodes. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and life-long Peanuts fan, introduces the collection.
"The world of Peanuts is a microcosm, a little human comedy for the innocent reader and for the sophisticated."Umberto EcoAs Peanuts concludes its first decade, a new character makes her appearance: Charlie Brown's little sister Sally. This volume covers her earliest days, from her proud brother's announcement of her birth to her first words (and crush on Linus)!Also: the initial "Great Pumpkin" sequence; Lucy's first appearance as a nickel psychiatrist; Linus's one-sided romance with his beloved teacher Miss Othmar; and Snoopy's battle with the doghouse-destroying freeway bypass. All this, plus two of the most famous Peanuts strips of all time: the "clouds" Sunday that Schulz cites as his personal favourite and "Happiness is a warm puppy."
The Complete Peanuts - 1963 to 1964
- 325 pages
- 12 hours of reading
COMIC STRIP FICTION / GRAPHIC NOVELS. In The Complete Peanuts 1963-64: this volume is particularly rich in never-before-reprinted strips: Over 150 (more than one fifth of the book!) have never seen the light of day since their original appearance over 40 years ago, so this will be a trove of undiscovered treasures even for avid Peanuts collectors. These "lost" strips include Linus making a near-successful run for class president that is ultimately derailed by his religious beliefs (two words: "great" and "pumpkin"), and Snoopy getting involved with a group of politically fanatical birds. Snoopy's doghouse begins its conceptual expansion, as Schulz reveals that the dog owns a Van Gogh, and that the ceiling is so huge that Linus can paint a vast (and as it turns out unappreciated) "history of civilisation" mural on it. With an introduction by Bill Melendez. Ages 6+.
COMIC STRIP FICTION / GRAPHIC NOVELS. In The Complete Peanuts 1965-66: We are now in the mid-1960s, one of Schulz's peak periods of creativity (and one third of the way through the strip's life!). Snoopy has become the strip's dominant personality, and this volume marks two milestones for the character: the first of many "dogfights" with the nefarious Red Baron, and the launch of his writing career ("It was a dark and stormy night..."). Two new characters-the first two from outside the strip's regular little neighborhood-make their bows. Roy (who befriends Charlie Brown and then Linus at summer camp) won't have a lasting impact, but upon his return from camp he regales a friend of his with tales of the strange kids he met, and she has to go check them out for herself. Her name? Peppermint Patty. The Complete Peanuts 1965-66 features a new introduction by Hal Hartley, writer/director of acclaimed independent films Trust, Henry Fool, Kimono, Simple Men, The Unbelievable Truth, and Fay Grim. Ages 6+.
The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips published from 1967 to 1968 in newspapers, including both daily and Sunday strips
Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips as originally published in newspapers, including both daily and Sunday strips.
The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972
- 325 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Kristin Chenoweth
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Billie Jean King
The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Alec Baldwin
The Complete Peanuts 1979-1980
- 323 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and praised series, with an introduction by Al Roker
In Snoopy-family news, Spike is drafted into the Infantry (don't worry, it's only Snoopy's imaginary World War I army), and a brand new brother, "Marbles" (with the spotty ears) takes his bow. We also see two major baseball-oriented stories, one in which Charlie Brown joins Peppermint Patty's team, and another in which Charlie Brown and his team lose their baseball field.
The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984
- 325 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Leonard Maltin
The Complete Peanuts 1985-1986
- 323 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Patton Oswalt
The Complete Peanuts
- 323 pages
- 12 hours of reading
So what do we have for Peanuts fans this time around? An ill-considered attempt at flirting sends Charlie Brown to the school doctor... Linus's ongoing romance with the too-young "Lydia" of the many names continues... Snoopy is joined in the trenches by his brother Spike... Sally engages in a career as a playwright by penning the school Christmas play but mixes up Gabriel and Geronimo... A hockey mishap sends Snoopy to the doctor for knee surgery, in a (clearly autobiographical) sequence that lasts only until everyone figures out that dogs don't have knees... Linus and Lucy's kid brother Rerun begins to take on the greater role that will lead to him being one of the dominant characters in the 1990s... and Snoopy, inevitably, writes a "kiss and tell" book. As we reach the 19th (!) book in this epochal, best-selling series collecting arguably the greatest comic strip of all time and head toward the end of the 1980s, Charles Schulz is still as inventive, hilarious, and touching as ever... and this volume even features a surprise format change, as the daily strip switches from its trademark four-square-panels format to a more flexible one-to-four-variable-panels format which, along with Schulz's increased use of gray tones, give this volume a striking, distinctive look.
The complete Peanuts, 1991 to 1992
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Part of Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Tom Tomorrow
The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The latest in Canongate's highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Jake Tapper
The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
In The Complete Peanuts: 1995-1996 (Vol. 23), Charlie Brown starts taking dancing classes and is asked to the sweetheart ball! The World Famous Attorney handles some tough cases, Rerun wants Snoopy to come out and play and Linus hears coyotes howling at night.
The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000: Vol. 25 Hardcover Edition
- 312 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The 25th volume of The Complete Peanuts collects the very final year-plus of the defining comic strip of the 20th century, which ran for nearly 18,000 strips and for 50 years after its debut in 1950. This masterpiece includes all of 1999 through the final Feb. 13, 2000 strip. In this volume, Rerun takes center stage and cements himself as the last great Peanuts character―when he embarks on a career as an underground comic book artist! This volume also features a huge surprise: the complete Li'l Folks, the weekly one-panel comic that Charles Schulz produced for his hometown paper. Li'l Folks was a clear precursor to Peanuts, and its inclusion here will bring The Complete Peanuts full circle.
"No true Peanuts library would be complete without this final volume of 'The complete Peanuts.' This book collects rare Peanuts art, most of which hasn't been seen in decades. There are storybooks, comic book stories, single-panel gags, advertising art--even a recipe!--all created by the hand of Charles M. Schulz"--Back of jacket
