The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988: Vol. 19 Paperback Edition

The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988: Vol. 19 Paperback Edition

Charles M. Schulz, Garry Trudeau (Foreword by)
$22.99
Publication Date: July 25th, 2023
Publisher:
Fantagraphics
ISBN:
9781683969037
Pages:
344
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Description

In the 19th volume of The Complete Peanuts, uproariously inept flirtations abound!

In this latest paperback volume of Peanuts, romance is in the air: Charlie Brown’s flirtatious winking in class sends him to the school nurse, Linus’s attempts to woo “Lydia” of the many names are met with mockery — and Peppermint Patty and Marcie’s fierce quarrel over which one of them “Charles” likes the best. Other storylines include Snoopy’s stay in the hospital for a hockey-related knee injury — until everyone realizes that dogs don’t have knees, Patty’s campaign to be her school’s “May Queen,” Sally’s rocky career as a playwright, and Snoopy’s “kiss-and-tell” book. Plus, fan-favorites Lucy, Rerun, Spike... and Snoopy’s feathered Beagle Scouts!

The Complete Peanuts is the publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz’s classic has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume of this series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays), plus bonus material such as celebrity introductions, interviews, and a brief biography of Schulz himself.

About the Author

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). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. 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 and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in Li'l Folks. They bought the strip, renaming it Peanuts, a title Schulz always loathed. 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. 

Garretson Beekman Trudeau(born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House.

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